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Japanese-style baseball, or rubber-ball baseball, (Japanese: 軟式野球, romanized: Nanshiki yakyū, lit. 'soft baseball') is a game that was created in Japan...

of Japan's 47 prefectures. In Japanese, baseball is commonly called yakyū (野球), combining the characters for field and ball. According to the Japan National...

MLB level. Japanese baseball is generally considered more of a contact-oriented game that American baseball; it has been said that Japanese teams practice...

Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball." The roots of the league can be traced...

Nippon Professional Baseball. The team that played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic included Japanese players from Major League Baseball as well. The team...

A total of 71 Japanese-born players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters...

Professional baseball in Japan first started in the 1920s, but it was not until the Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-nippon Tōkyō Yakyū...

The National High School Baseball Championship (全国高等学校野球選手権大会, Zenkoku Kōtō Gakkō Yakyū Senshuken Taikai) of Japan, commonly known as "Summer Koshien"...

team of American League baseball players, playing against a Japanese team that would become the Yomiuri Giants. The baseball stars were both tourists...

In Japan, Kōshien (甲子園) generally refers to the two annual baseball tournaments played by high schools nationwide culminating at a final showdown at Hanshin...

2023. For example, in Japan in 2012, 86 percent of marriages were between a Japanese and a spouse from the USA were between a Japanese woman and an American...

The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation...

The Baseball Federation of Japan (BFJ) (全日本野球協会, Zen'nihon Yakyū Kyōkai) is governing body of baseball in Japan. They organize of Japanese amateur baseball...

21st century teams. High school baseball in Japan Japan High School Baseball Federation Japanese High School Baseball Championship ("Summer Koshien")...

American expatriate baseball players in Japan have been a feature of the Japanese professional leagues since 1934. American expatriate players began to...

peculiarities of Japanese baseball. It is used as a training resource by foreign professional baseball players who join a Japanese team. Jack Elliot...

Koreans, with their "big bodies", played "American-style baseball" rather than "Japanese baseball", which some regarded as racially-charged. South Korea's...

In baseball, a submarine is a pitch in which the ball is released often just above the ground, but not underhanded, with the torso bent at a right angle...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several...