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  2. List of Major League Baseball players from Japan - Wikipedia

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    A total of 71 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.

  3. Japan women's national ice hockey team - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese women's national ice hockey team ( Japanese: アイスホッケー女子日本代表, Hepburn: Aisuhokkē Joshi Nippon Daihyō) represents Japan at the International Ice Hockey Federation 's Women's World Championships, the Winter Olympics, and at other international ice hockey tournaments. The women's national team is governed by ...

  4. Yomiuri Giants - Wikipedia

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    The team began in 1934 as The Great Japan Tokyo Baseball Club (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-Nippon Tōkyō Yakyū Kurabu), a team of all-stars organized by media mogul Matsutarō Shōriki that toured the United States [1] and matched up against an American all-star team that included Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, and Charlie Gehringer.

  5. Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series - Wikipedia

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    Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series. The Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Game is an annual baseball series of All-Star Games (in most years, two games are played, but three such games can and have been played as well) between players from the Central League and the Pacific League, currently selected by a combination of fans ...

  6. United States women's national ice hockey team - Wikipedia

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    United States. The United States women's national ice hockey team is controlled by USA Hockey. The U.S. has been one of the most successful women's ice hockey teams in international play, having medaled in every major tournament. In 1998, the women's Olympic hockey team was named the USOC Team of the Year. In April 2015, the women's national ...

  7. Shohei Ohtani - Wikipedia

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    For the 2021 All-MLB Team, Ohtani is the only player to be named to both teams, first team and second team, in the same season (as a designated hitter and starting pitcher respectively). [109] He became the first pitcher, the first Japanese player and the first Angels player to win the Edgar Martínez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award . [ 110 ]

  8. Japan women's national field hockey team - Wikipedia

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    Sakura 桜 (kanji), 櫻 (old kanji), さくら (hiragana), サクラ (katakana) The Cherry Blossoms. Association. Japan Hockey Association. Confederation. AHF ( Asia) Head Coach. Jude Menezes. Assistant coach (es) Kazuyuki Ozawa.

  9. Baseball is back in the Olympics in 2028. What the rosters ...

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    Baseball was dropped after the 2008 Games, returned in 2021 in Japan, then was left out this year in Paris. Baseball is back in the Olympics in 2028. What the rosters will look like is hard to say