Veteran drivers Ronnie Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda and Nismo's racing crew effectively cope with bad weather to win the rain-shortened Okayama GT.
In a distinguished kickboxing career, Tenshin Nasukawa won all 44 of his pro fights. And then he returned to square one against Yuki Yonaha.
Ibaraki native and Japan national team regular Ayase Ueda is one of the top scorers in Belgium, notching 15 goals in Cercle Brugge's first 31 games...
With a 7-0 record in the WBC, Samurai Japan, led by manager Hideki Kuriyama, featured quality hitting and pitching along with smart baseball fundamentals.
For Samurai Japan, impressive wins over China, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Australia underscore the team's tremendous talent and roster depth.
University of Nebraska guard Keisei Tominaga emerges as the team's top scorer and energizes the improved Cornhuskers over the past several weeks.
Although Japan struggled in the opening rounds of the 2006 WBC, subsequent victories over South Korea and Cuba delivered a championship to Sadaharu Oh's team.
While shining the spotlight on Japanese sports stories, the redesigned SportsLook website has several new features and a goal of raising coverage to a new level.
Tsubasa Endoh, a former University of Maryland player who launched his pro career with MLS club Toronto FC in 2016, is undergoing chemotherapy in Japan.
Current All Blacks Beauden Barrett and Aaron Smith will join the Toyota Verblitz after the 2023 Rugby World Cup, giving the fledgling league more star power.
Veteran jockey Yuichi Fukunaga is planning to retire at the end of February and become a trainer. He was the JRA's winningest jockey in 2011 and...
Executing difficult techniques on her snowboard is a never-ending quest for Reira Iwabuchi. The 21-year-old won the women's big air event at the Winter X Games.
