Tatsuko Iguchi, daughter of Japanese Ambassador Sadao Iguchi, lights the Stone Lantern near the Tidal Basin March 30, 1954. The lantern was given, by the governor of Tokyo, to the people of the ...

Dylan Hernández writes Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto has matured and improved since last season, asserting himself as a ...

A reader posited that Chicago ace Shota Imanaga "is the best Japanese pitcher in the league and it's not close at the moment." While Castrovince said that it was a stretch to say that it isn't ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto can win the National League Cy Young Award. The possibility of Yamamoto doing that has felt increasingly real every time he has stepped on the mound this season, reaching the ...

“I’ve heard no Japanese pitcher has won it yet, so I’m awfully interested in it,” Yamamoto said in Japanese. “I think that concentrating on each and every game and performing at my best ...