The late Nobuyoshi Tsubota used to say that he was not a craftsman, but a technician who faithfully met the players’ needs without pushing his own...
The MLB great will be honored by the Mariners at their ballpark next August, and he'll likely be enshrined at the National Baseball Hall of Fame...
The two-way star became the first Japanese player to be chosen as a Most Valuable Player in the major leagues since Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.
Will the superb pitching of Orix be able to contain the explosive hitting of Yakult?
Plus, who’s going to light the Olympic cauldron to officially usher in the Tokyo Games? And, Brisbane is awarded the 2032 Summer Games.
The Angels star is the first Japanese player to be chosen as an All-Star starter since Ichiro Suzuki in 2010.
Ichiro played a pivotal role in the Seattle Mariners' come-from-behind victory in his first MLB game on April 2, 2001.
Well-known athletes Hidetoshi Nakata, Kei Nishikori, Keijuro Matsui and Hiromi Matsunaga and visionary coach Mototaka Kohama provide vivid examples of this strong motivational force.
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...
I was born seven weeks early in April 1974, and my mother still reminds me about it. “You’ve always been in a hurry,” she...
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...
Interest in basketball has reached new, unimagined heights in Japan ever since Japanese basketball phenomenon Rui Hachimura was drafted by the Washington Wizards as the 9th...