Oral History

Full interviews with different United States and Japanese Baseball players will be uploaded here and on our YouTube Channel as the project continues. Follow us on YouTube at US-Japan Baseball Diplomacy Project or by this link.

Part 1 of an interview with Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese Major League pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants in 1964 and 1965.
The second part to our interview with Masanori Murakami.
Interview with Ryan Kurosaki, the first American of Japanese descent to play at the major league as a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1975.

Also check out our YouTube Short on our channel and on this webpage.

Ken Macha on Ichiro Suzuki
Jack Bloomfield on Masaichi Kaneda
Ryan Kurosaki on Shohei Ohtani
Boomer Wells on Suguru Egawa
Masanori Murakami on Roberto Clemente
Jack Bloomfield on Isao Harimoto
Gosuke Katoh on Shohei Ohtani