Major League Baseball is reviving the Japan All-Star Series again for 2018, with the event taking place during November 7th through the 15th while visiting three Japanese stadiums. The best players from Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Professional have been facing off irregularly dating back to 1986; this year’s iteration will mark the 12th time that the two sides have matched up and the second time MLB’s best will face the National Team from the Land of the Rising Sun - Samurai Japan.
Japan’s National Team defeated the MLB All-Stars for the first time ever the last time these two sides met, which was in a best-of-five series in 2014.