~~ As 2020 comes to a close, JAPAN Forward is highlighting notable sports team accomplishments and individual feats by Japanese teams and athletes, both here and...
Washington Wizards forward Rui Hachimura is expected to miss the first three weeks of the NBA season due to bi-lateral epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC), which is also...
It was a game that showcased the dynamic skills of star guard Yuki Togashi and do-it-all forward Julian Mavungaーand the coaching acumen of Atsushi Ono and...
~JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readership in 2020. We invite you to find what attracted readers to our most popular articles of the year,...
˜˜ The gold standard for managers in Nippon Professional Baseball is Tetsuharu Kawakami. The dugout boss for the Yomiuri Giants from 1961-74, Kawakami piloted the...
Pro sports teams are expected to perform better at their own home venues. The familiarity of playing at home is supposed to give them an...
Local organizers have unveiled plans for how they'll tackle the COVID-19 pandemic during the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics next summer. In a 54-page report, which...
As winter approaches, Japan's sports calendar includes two major achievements within the past several days. For starters, it surprised nobody that the Fukuoka SoftBank...
Years before his rise to prominence at Gonzaga University and with the NBA's Washington Wizards, Rui Hachimura was just another Okuda Junior High School student....
Luis Guil's father and uncles have worked as airplane pilots in his native Spain. Perhaps, then, it's not outrageous to suggest that there was...
The 2021 Japan Rugby Top League season will open at the new National Stadium on January 16, giving Tokyo a marquee event early in...
It was a big week in the B. League. A week that seemed to punctuate this point: the basketball season is in full swing now....