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Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球, Puroyagu), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. [1] [2] The first professional competitions emerged in the 1920s.The highest level of baseball in Japan is Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), which consists of two leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League, with six teams in each league. [3]
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Starting in 1992 and continuing intermittently, several Major League Baseball teams have played exhibition games against Japanese teams. American teams popular in Japan include the Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees, at least in part due to Japanese players on those teams.
(Top) 1 Central League. 2 ... List of current Major League Baseball team rosters ... External links. Nippon Professional Baseball announcement 2022 - NPB.jp (in Japanese)
Japanese pro baseball has its version of the Major Leagues (Nippon Professional Baseball). Minor league teams are split into Farm, Industrial and Independent leagues. Farm teams are direct minor ...
The Giants are the oldest professional sports team in Japan. They are also by far the most successful, having won 22 Japan Series titles and an additional nine in the era of NPB's forerunner, the Japanese Baseball League. Their main rivalry is with the Hanshin Tigers, a team especially popular in the Kansai region.
The Japan national baseball team (野球日本代表, Yakyū Nippon Daihyō or Yakyū Nihon Daihyō), also known as Samurai Japan (侍ジャパン), is the national team representing Japan in international baseball competitions. It won the World Baseball Classic in 2006, 2009, and 2023 as well as WBSC Premier12 in 2019.