Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners, the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him ...

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose’s 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single ...

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...

It would be 30 years before MLB got another Japanese player. Hideo Nomo joined the Dodgers in 1995 and was the NL Rookie of the Year with a 13-6 record. Overall in America, he worked in 324 games ...

Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now — and his fame across the Pacific was therapeutic as ...

Although players like Hideo Nomo and Hideki Matsui have been considered ... During his time with the Orix BlueWave in Japan's Kansai region, Ichiro developed his iconic "pendulum swing," a unique ...

Thanks to the trail blazed by Ichiro and Hideo Nomo, among others, many young Japanese ballplayers are now going abroad. Roki Sasaki, a former pitcher with the Chiba Lotte Marines, signed with the ...

Imagine pitching a game during Hideo Nomo’s rookie season with his funky windup. Or playing as Hideki Matsui during the 2009 World Series. Or hurling fastballs in the Japan Series as young ...

the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence ...