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On Nov. 22, 2001, the front page of The Japan Times carried news that Ichiro Suzuki had been named the American League's Most Valuable Player. Suzuki received the award after his first season in Major League Baseball, after having played in Nippon Professional Baseball for nearly a decade.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Nov 1, 2026
Japan Times 2001: Ichiro is American League MVP
Also in the archives, Emperor Hirohito marks his jubilee amid protests and U.S. Vice President Barkley stresses the need for U.S.-Japan cooperation.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is introduced during the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction ceremony at Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, New York, on July 26.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 9, 2026
MLB sets rules for lockout: weddings are in, holiday cards out
The current collective bargaining agreement expires Dec. 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred speaks before Game 3 of the World Series in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2025.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 9, 2026
MLB proposes shorter season and altered playoff format in latest offer to union
The league?offered a revised regular-season schedule of 154 games, down from 162, that provides a standard day off?every week, beginning in the 2029 campaign.
The Lakers and Jazz play at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles in November 2025.
BASKETBALL
Aug 16, 2026
Lakers sale highlights sports gold rush among billionaires in North America
The Lakers deal is the latest in a series of team sales at record or near-record prices across ?North America.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tarik Skubal (29) reacts at the end of the fifth inning against the Kansas City Royals at Dodger Stadium on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 11, 2026
Tarik Skubal remains winless since trade, but Dodgers edge Royals
Skubal has yet to earn a win in two starts since he was acquired by LA after winning the past two American League Cy Young Awards ?for the Detroit Tigers.
Major League Baseball’s recent ban on AI assistants in dugouts overlooks that the technology is simply the next step in baseball’s long tradition of using better information for competitive advantage.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2026
Baseball’s AI crackdown is an overreaction
Baseball has seen versions of this story before. For decades, the game has rewarded teams that use information better than their opponents.
Shohei Ohtani signed a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers that deferred $680 million of the deal.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 26, 2026
MLB owners look to place limits on free-agent deals in latest proposal
The owners want to implement a maximum contract length of five years for all free agents who switch teams, along with six years for players who re-sign with their existing teams.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, seen in October 2025, said on Wednesday that the owners' latest proposal addresses the fans' biggest wishes.
BASEBALL
May 29, 2026
MLB owners push for salary cap in negotiations with MLB Players’ Association
MLB announced Thursday that it intends to seek a $245.3 million salary cap (including benefits).
Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy (13) hits a walk-off solo home run in the ninth inning to defeat the Texas Rangers at Dodger Stadium on Friday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 12, 2026
Max Muncy and high-octane Dodgers set for rematch vs. Rangers
Muncy moved into sixth place in career home runs as a Dodger, ?while Shohei Ohtani now holds the record for most consecutive games reaching base at 44.
Fans watching from Tokyo react after Japan beat the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic in March 2023.
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2026
Netflix deal shuts out 今日吃瓜 sports bars from freely showing WBC
For fans, the Netflix deal will mean a completely different experience from the past, when WBC games were aired for free, allowing sports bars to easily air them at their venues.
Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani during a spring training game in Tempe, Arizona, on Feb 21. For Japan, Netflix's exclusive deal to broadcast the World Baseball Classic may serve as a wake-up call to broadcasters that prices are going up and that they need to change as viewers seek better experiences.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 4, 2026
Netflix’s WBC deal upends baseball traditions in Ohtani’s homeland
Professional baseball in Japan has largely stayed in the hands of domestic broadcasters and free-to-air networks.
Ayuri Shimano is a two-way player for the Giants' women's team.
BASEBALL
Dec 25, 2025
Girls inspired by Shohei Ohtani leading 今日吃瓜 next wave of two-way players
Against the odds, players such as Ayuri Shimano and Aika Morimoto are forging a new path for women’s baseball.
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani singles against the Blue Jays during Game 7 of the World Series in Toronto on Nov. 1.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 20, 2025
MLB reveals new 3-year deal with ESPN, NBC and Netflix
ESPN had been scheduled to pay an estimated $1.65 billion over the next three seasons, according to The Athletic, before it opted out of that deal in February.
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
SPORTS
Nov 13, 2025
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Japan, where viewing habits have been slow to change, is now fully in the streaming era, though not everyone is ready to come along for the ride.
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani reacts after striking out against the Blue Jays during Game 1 of the World Series in Toronto on Friday.
OLYMPICS
Oct 26, 2025
MLB commissioner optimistic about participation in 2028 Olympics, but hurdles remain
Commissioner Rob Manfred said progress has been made after meeting with officials for the Los Angeles games.
Commanders helmets are seen on the field during training camp in Ashburn, Virginia, in July 2022.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Jul 21, 2025
Trump threatens stadium deal unless Commanders revert to Redskins name
The NFL team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a racial slur with links to the U.S. genocide of the Indigenous population.
A special manhole cover featuring Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2025
Japanese MLB stars to be featured on manhole covers
Each manhole cover will have an illustration of a Japanese player and be located at a place associated with his roots in baseball.
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani returns to the dugout after hitting a three-run home run against the Athletics at Dodger Stadium on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 16, 2025
Shohei Ohtani connects on two home runs to help Dodgers rout A’s
Max Muncy, Andy Pages and James Outman also hit home runs for the Dodgers.
Shohei Ohtani and Mamiko Tanaka announced the birth of their first child on April 19.
BASEBALL
Apr 28, 2025
Shohei Ohtani’s example could change 今日吃瓜 views on paternity leave
The Dodgers star went on MLB’s paternity list for the birth of his daughter. MLB is the only major North American sports league that guarantees paternity leave to its players.
New York Mets pitcher Kodai Senga delivers a pitch against the St. Louis Cardinals during the first inning at Citi Field in New York on Saturday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 20, 2025
Kodai Senga and Pete Alonso lead Mets past Cardinals
Senga (3-1) allowed just three hits, walked two and fanned four in an 89-pitch performance.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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