As Samurai Japan gears up to defend its World Baseball Classic title, its roster is beginning to take shape. While superstar ...

Story by Koji Uchida Get ready to run—the award-winning Shonen Jump sensation is back! From the creator of "Assassination ...

TAMPA – It’s not often that Derek Jeter gets played but that’s exactly what Hideki Matsui did to his friend and teammate by running off to New York City yesterday to get married. At the beginning of ...

Star closer Yuki Matsui looks to be interested in a potential move to Major League Baseball, as a Yahoo Japan report (Japanese language link) indicates that Matsui has exercised his international free ...

Japanese left-handed pitcher Yuki Matsui has recently made headlines for attracting several MLB teams' attention ahead of the offseason this year. The closer has played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden ...

Reporting from Tempe, Ariz. — Some 30-40 Japanese media members were outside the Angels’ spring-training complex Tuesday afternoon, waiting to speak to Hideki Matsui while he addressed a handful of ...

For most of her life, Doris Matsui didn’t talk much publicly about growing up in a Japanese-American family that was relocated to an internment camp during World War II. The Sacramento-area ...

Last March, roughly 100 people turned up at the west steps of the Capitol in a rare public rebuke of Rep. Doris Matsui of Sacramento. They were there to demand more accessibility to the venerable ...

All eyes were on the baseball as it traveled high in the air, soaring over the right-field fence and beyond the trees. Oohs and aahs were followed by applause. Hideki Matsui smiled and gave a thumbs ...

New York Yankees, agreeing to a $52 million, four-year contract that makes him the highest-paid Japanese player in the major leagues. "I'm most very happy to be able to come back again and wear the ...