Shohei Ohtani has already reached the level of national hero in his native Japan, and he has now added the biggest prize that a player could achieve stateside with a professional baseball club.

Travelers who stay at the hotel inside the Es Con Field Hokkaido stadium can watch baseball games from their rooms or while ...

Shohei Ohtani, commonly known as "Shotime ... Prior to this, he demonstrated his prowe­ss with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Base­ball's Pacific League.

A win for the baseball superstar’s Los Angeles Dodgers “will be seen as a victory for Japanese baseball and the Japanese ...

Shohei Ohtani’s hometown in northern Japan is a rural place, famous for its high-quality Maesawa beef, its history of making ...

The New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers are locked in an epic showdown in this year's World Series, with each team's ...

In Shohei Ohtani’s Japanese hometown ... the Japanese league’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Two years earlier, the Tohoku ...

Shohei Ohtani is now a World Series champion. Between endorsement deals and a record-breaking contract with the Dodgers, what ...

Ohtani is a national hero in all of Japan, his image plastered over billboards, green tea advertisements and newspaper pages.

OSHU CITY, Japan — In Oshu, the small rural town where Shohei Ohtani grew up ... leading the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters to victory in 2016 in the league’s annual championship, the Japan ...

Oshu Citgy, Japan — Shohei Ohtani's hometown in northern Japan ... This was for Japan’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, and Kanno came back with a ball signed by Ohtani.

His loyalties lie with Shohei Ohtani, the baseball star who ... the Japanese league’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Two years earlier, the Tohoku region of Japan, where Oshu sits, had been ...