The Seattle Mariners will have its third player in franchise history etched into baseball immortality when Ichiro Suzuki is inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 27 in ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese players in Major League Baseball is at a high point.

After a historic sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates got swept on Sunday at the hands of The post ...

2006 — Seattle Mariners rookie Kenji Johjima, the first catcher from Japan to start a major league game, hits a home run for his first hit.

History will have to wait: Imanaga was bidding to become only the third Japanese pitcher to throw a no-hitter in MLB history, joining Hideo Nomo and Hisashi Iwakuma.

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese players in Major League Baseball is at a high point.

2006 — Seattle Mariners rookie Kenji Johjima, the first catcher from Japan to start a major league game, hits a home run for his first hit.

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese players in Major League Baseball is at a high point.

But it was thirty years later when pitcher Hideo Nomo came to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 that Japan's presence in the big leagues really started to be felt.