Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Mariners, the impact of Japanese players is as ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick ... According to the team’s website, Tsubakuro was born in Japan, is of unknown age, and is based on a swallow. He was a strong pitcher ...

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

Yakult was an early pioneer in the probiotics space and was originally established in Japan in 1935. It was founded by a microbiologist, Dr. Minoru Shirota.

(Mainichi/Naotsune Umemura) TOKYO -- Japan's professional baseball team the Tokyo Yakult Swallows announced Feb. 19 that the person who performs as the club's popular mascot Tsubakuro had passed away.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — It’s been nearly eight years since David Buchanan shut out two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani ’s Nippon-Ham Fighters in his first season with the Yakult Swallows of Japan’s Nippon ...

American infielder Torey Lovullo – who was in the other dugout playing the final year of his career in Japan with the Yakult Swallows – couldn’t believe his eyes. The 26-year-old’s ...

American infielder Torey Lovullo — who was in the other dugout playing the final year of his career in Japan with the Yakult Swallows — couldn't believe his eyes. The 26-year-old's combination ...