Japan's Koki Ikeda and Kumiko Okada were second in the marathon mixed relay race at the World Race Walking Team Championships, raising expectations for Paris.
The elite NBA Basketball School aims to nurture the next generation in Japan by imparting complex basketball skills with a focus on values, health and wellness.
By winning the 200-meter IM title on the last day of Japan's Olympic trials, Yui Ohashi qualified for the Paris Games. She called it a "wonderful...
The Japan men face 2023 Basketball World Cup champ Germany in its first group phase match in France, and the Japan women open against the United...
Australian-born surfer Connor O'Leary was selected to represent his mother's homeland at the Paris Games. Competitors will ride the waves in Tahiti.
Double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge fades to 10th at the Tokyo Marathon, while Japan's Yusuke Nishiyama misses out on a Paris Olympic spot.
Emphasizing the stablemaster's responsibility for his wrestler's behavior, the JSA cut his pay and demoted the winningest yokozuna in sumo history by two ranks.
The two talented breakdancers improved their chances of representing Japan when breaking makes its Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Games.
Mai Yamamoto and Evelyn Mawuli sparked Japan with 21 points apiece in a narrow victory over Canada in Hungary to punch a ticket to the Paris...
Reigning Olympic champion Uta Abe received the International Judo Federation's top individual accolade for women for the second straight year.
At the Nagoya Women's Marathon in March, Japanese runners vying to make the Olympic team will have to beat the national record set by Honami Maeda...
As regional and global dynamics develop, predictions from these scenarios point to Japan becoming more open, more Asian, and more influential in the New Year.