On Thursday, September 14, 2023, the Hanshin Tigers won the professional baseball Central League for the first time in 18 years since 2005. The last time the tournament was won, more than 5,300 people ...

OSAKA—A memorial service was held here for a figure beloved by Hanshin Tigers fans but also reviled as the source of the team’s decades-long championship drought. A statue of Colonel Sanders, with its ...

The Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball won the Central League title for the first time in two years, and overjoyed fans jumped into the Dotonbori River in Osaka. However, experts warned, ...

OSAKA--About 1,300 prefectural police officers are ready to keep order in the downtown area as the Hanshin Tigers could clinch the Central League title on Sept. 14 as they face their rival Yomiuri ...

Sports fans are a passionate breed. The same is true of baseball supporters in Japan, especially those of the Hanshin Tigers. The Tigers, based in Osaka, are known for having some of the most devoted ...

The Hanshin Tigers won Game 7 of the SMBC Japan Series 2023 and became number one in Japan for the first time in 38 years. This series was the second Kansai Derby in 59 years since 1964, with the ...

Osaka – Contrary to what many believe, the Curse of the Colonel, Japanese baseball’s most famous and enduring urban legend, was sparked when the Hanshin Tigers won the Central League pennant in 1985 — ...

OSAKA -- Hanshin Tigers fans were ecstatic after the Nippon Professional Baseball team won their first Japan Series championship in 38 years on Nov. 5, with some taking the celebrations a bit too far ...

First, the decidedly "apropos of nothing" backstory ... Back in 1985 the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Central League won their loop's equivalent of our World Series (the Japan Championship Series).