Three years ago, Samurai Japan fielded a team in the World Baseball Classic that might as well have been called the Future Dodgers. Playing both ways was Shohei Ohtani, who was employed by the ...

After Samurai Japan lost in dramatic fashion to NPB team Orix Buffaloes, Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani displayed an odd reaction.

Seiya Suzuki was midway through his home run trot when he held out his left hand as if clutching an imaginary bowl. Holding an invisible whisk in his other hand, the Chicago Cubs outfielder made a ...

Samurai Japan secured a 9-0 win over the Czech Republic in the World Baseball Classic, with a stellar performance by infielders Murakami and Shuto. Czech pitcher Ondrej Satoria, an electrician, stood ...

TOKYO -- At the sixth World Baseball Classic, the Japanese national team "Samurai Japan" has attracted widespread attention with a new "tea whisk" cel･･･ ...

Shugo Maki and Shota Morishita delivered solo home runs for Samurai Japan in a 7-3 comeback win over the Chunichi Dragons on ...

With superstar Shohei Ohtani on the bench on Tuesday and Samurai Japan assured a playoff berth in the World Baseball Classic, attention in the Tokyo Dome momentarily focused on an electrician from the ...

One of the most influential character archetypes in film history is adapting to contemporary social mores and finding new life on Japan’s screens big and small. By Gavin Blair By the time the samurai ...

Japan has a proud history of anti-imperialist struggle. Samurai means “to Serve” and belongs to the warrior class of feudal Japan. The classes of Japan were based upon the caste system of India and ...