Weekend TV : Major Leaguers Playing the Fields in Japan; Still ‘Paradise’ After 30 Years of Statehood?

Programs about and from the Pacific Rim will buttress yet another lackluster weekend of summer reruns.

“A Yen for Baseball,” tonight at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 28, chronicles a baseball tour of Japan by a group of American major leaguers. The U.S. team, which played seven games last winter against a team of Japanese All-Stars, included Dodgers’ pitcher Orel Hershiser, and the program highlights the differences between the way the game is played here and in Japan.

On Sunday, the Discovery Channel kicks off its weeklong celebration of the 30th anniversary of Hawaii’s becoming our 50th state with an hourlong travelogue of the islands at 7 p.m. At 11 p.m., the cable channel offers a documentary, “Hawaii: Paradise Lost?,” which examines whether the quality of life in the islands has changed for better or worse over the last three decades.

Locally, foreign-language Channel 18 will debut “KSCI to Eye” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. This new monthly magazine will focus on Southern California’s Asian-American population. The premiere program includes coverage of Little Tokyo’s Nisei Week Festival.