1) Amount of games played in a season: In American baseball (MLB) there are 162 games played in a season compared to 144 games in the Japanese Central and Pacific leagues.
2) Corporations who have interests outside baseball own the teams. Historically speaking teams, teams have been identified with their owners, not where the team is actually based. However, in saying that in recent years, many owners have chosen to include a place-name in the name of their teams, 12 of the NPB teams are currently named with both corporate and place names. Manuha Corporation has taken this one step farther by completely dropping its name from its NPB team, the Yokohama Bay Stars.
3) The rules are essentially those of Major League Baseball.
4) In the Nippon league, TIE games are allowed and technical elements are a little different: 1) A Japanese baseball is slightly smaller and wound more tightly than an American baseball and is harder. 2) The strike zone is narrower "inside" than away from the batter. 3) There are also 5 Nippon league teams that have "undersized" home fields (as compared to the 1958 MLB rule of 325/400/325 with slight allowances for the height of the fence). A team can have more than four foreign players, limiting the cost and competition for expensive players of other nationalities, similar to the rules in many European sports league's roster limits on non-European players.
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