Ruth and Lou Gehrig played at the stadium on a 1934 barnstorming tour. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami was inspired to ...

Named after the stadium in which it’s played (professional home of the Hanshin Tigers), Koshien is the insanely-intense single-elimination baseball tournament that begins with 4,000 eligible ...

August has begun in the best possible way for the Hanshin Tigers, as they marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of Hanshin Koshien Stadium with a memorable win Thursday. The dominant 9-2 win ...

TOKYO -- Japanese high school baseball players, heartbroken because their annual tournament was canceled due to the pandemic, are getting a consolation prize: a spoonful of dirt.

Japanese pop-rock band Anzenchitai announced its first-ever concert at the Hanshin Koshien Stadium, called Sayonara Game, set for Nov. 16.. The show will be the veteran four-man band’s first ...

The tournament, typically referred to as Koshien in honor of the field, lasts two weeks during the August school holiday, and typically captures the imagination and media focus of the country much ...

Can you imagine the annual National High School Baseball Tournament being played somewhere else besides Koshien Stadium? A fan has suggested, because of the intense heat earlier this summer and ...

A half-digested fish rained on the outfield of Koshien stadium in western Japan on Sunday, causing a baseball game between the Hanshin Tigers and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to be delayed for a few ...

Each ball has the words: '2020 102nd Koshien,' for the 102nd tournament, and pictures of a ball, bats and the stadium. They are to be delivered in August, when the tournament had been scheduled to ...