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

Yankees legend Hideki Matsui played seven seasons for the Yankees ... who paved the way for Japanese players in many ways. Certainly, there were Japanese players before Suzuki, but Suzuki opened ...

(Kyodo) NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Derek Jeter, Sadaharu Oh and Hideki Matsui were among many to offer ... The 51-year-old Ichiro, Major League Baseball's first Japanese position player in 2001, had ...

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 ...

Asked whether the success of Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and others in MLB helped him make his ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride ...