TOKYO -- Japan's professional baseball team the Tokyo Yakult Swallows announced Feb. 19 that the person who performs as the club's popular mascot Tsubakuro had passed away. The team issued a ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick wit made Tsubakuro one of the most popular mascots in Japanese professional baseball has ... was born in Japan, is of unknown age, and ...

and Gakuto Wakabayashi hit a sayonara single in the 10th to lift the Kyojin to a 6-5 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the season opener at Tokyo Dome on Friday night. In a time of both ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tetsuto Yamada hit his 300th career home run and Peter Lambert threw six scoreless innings in his Japanese baseball debut as the Yakult Swallows beat the Chunichi Dragons ...

Jingu’s home club, the Yakult Swallows, held a spring exhibition ... interested in seeing the country’s top league, Nippon Professional Baseball. Plenty of Japanese fans have been drawn ...

The undisputed giants of the NPB (no pun intended…) Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo the Giants have won a record 22 Japan Series and have 39 Central League pennants to their name. This success and their public ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki was having his typical day on a baseball field in 2000 ... playing the final year of his career in Japan with the Yakult Swallows — couldn’t believe his eyes.