The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks skipper, who has guided his club to five Japan Series titles since 2015, is not expected to remain in charge in 2022.
The struggling Top 14 club is looking for the Brave Blossoms star to make a big impact this season, and he vows to keep improving.
The third-year pro leads the Japanese professional women's tour with eight victories this season.
Toingakuen High School (Kanagawa Prefecture) defeated Kyoto Seisho High School 32-15 in the 100th National High School Rugby Tournament on Saturday, January 9, becoming champions for...
˜˜ 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...
If the subject of Japanese sports trailblazers comes up in conversation, pioneering baseball and soccer stars would probably be mentioned first. After all,...
🄫JSRA photo by H.Nagaoka In the wake of their exit from the Southern Hemisphere’s top professional rugby league earlier this year, the Sunwolves held a special memorial...
The Rakuten Japan Open, a men's ATP Tour event, was canceled in June, and the Hana-Cupid Japan Women's Open was called off as well....
(Feature Photo: Baseball: the 2020 Nippon pro baseball season has started.) The clock is ticking. MLB owners and the Major League Baseball...
Rugby fever continues to grip Japan even though the World Cup finished several months ago. In 2020, before the novel coronavirus swept the...
A new year has dawned, but the success of the 2019 Rugby World Cup is still fresh in the minds of Japanese sports fans. The...
As 2019 comes to a close, we at JAPAN Forward are reflecting on the stories that moved Japan this year, and the stories our readers...