Inside the Dodgers’ seven-year pursuit of Rōki Sasaki, their foothold in Japan and the battle for MLB's next potential pitching star.

Sasaki made the surprising jump from playing high school ball in Japan to attending an American college, forgoing Japan's ...

A high-stakes showdown unfolds Tuesday, February 18, as a mix of local contenders, former national team standouts and ...

Rintaro Sasaki is a teenage phenomenon who aspires to play Major League Baseball. He is a trailblazer embarking upon an unconventional path for a Japanese ball player.

"I got a text message saying he was going to Toronto," one Dodgers talent evaluator told FOX Sports ... national high school tournament in Japan, by signing early with an MLB club.

OITA -- A high school in southwest Japan's Oita Prefecture gave extra points in its 2023 recommendation-based entrance exam to prospective students with achievements in certain club activities ...

An inner-city high school ... of his Japanese residency. When the boys pull an elaborate prank on their corrupt principal (Shiro Sano), upending his luxury sports car in the school courtyard ...

Misaki Takeuchi, a third-year high school student who is head of the brass band club, said, “I believe that various things (in history) have occurred with regard to relations between Japan and ...