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.
The Dream Bowl represented an opportunity for Japan to plant the seeds of American football for this era and beyond, to grow the sport and renew...
In nearly 100 images, supplemented with background information in English and Japanese, "Sumo" introduces numerous aspects of the tradition-rich sport.
After becoming the first amateur to win the Japan Open in the tournament's 95 years of competition last fall, Taiga Semikawa aims for more success in...
It's fitting that future legend Pele had a nickname bestowed on him as a child with exactly the same number of letters as the word "goal."
A trio of Beijing Olympic gold medals, Roki Sasaki's perfect game and boxer Naoya Inoue's success were among 2022's defining sports highlights for Japan.
Daiya Seto wins his sixth consecutive 400-meter individual medley title at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
After making his NPB debut in 2012 with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, Kodai Senga became one of Japan's best starting pitchers. New challenges await him in...
By beating two-time world champion Ai Shishime in their Tokyo Grand Slam title match, Uta Abe sends a clear signal that she remains a force to...
Spain, Germany, Japan and Costa Rica have experienced the highs and lows of the FIFA World Cup. All Group E teams have a shot at qualifying...