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 ...

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 ...

The idea behind it is to prevent MLB teams from signing away Japanese players without compensation ... Yamamoto and could need him. He's a rare pitcher capable of winning Cy Youngs as soon ...

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 ...