Major League Baseball is in talks with its Japanese counterpart on having an MLB season-opening series at Tokyo Dome in March 2025, Nippon Professional Baseball's commissioner said Friday.
"We are on track to hold the series, but it's undecided which teams are coming," said commissioner Sadayuki Sakakibara, a former chairman of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren.
NPB is also considering having major league and Japanese teams play exhibition games at Es Con Field Hokkaido before or after the MLB season opener.
The Nippon Ham Fighters' Es Con Field Hokkaido opened last year. Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani played for the Fighters between 2013 and 2017.
The commissioners of MLB, NPB and the Korea Baseball Organization plan to hold a meeting in March in Seoul, where the Dodgers and San Diego Padres will open the season with a two-game set.
