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.
Meet Miu Hirano, the soft-spoken, seriously focused table tennis champion and Olympian who shares her love of Sanrio characters with fans and fellow athletes.
After an eye-opening experience at the Basketball World Cup, Yudai Baba says he'll aim to improve as a player this season to get ready for the...
Though he considered retiring from the national team if Japan didn't qualify for the Paris Olympics, Yuta Watanabe is eager to keep making an impact.