~JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readership in 2020. We invite you to find what attracted readers to our most popular articles of the year,...
As winter approaches, Japan's sports calendar includes two major achievements within the past several days. For starters, it surprised nobody that the Fukuoka SoftBank...
Years before his rise to prominence at Gonzaga University and with the NBA's Washington Wizards, Rui Hachimura was just another Okuda Junior High School student....
The 2021 Japan Rugby Top League season will open at the new National Stadium on January 16, giving Tokyo a marquee event early in...
If the subject of Japanese sports trailblazers comes up in conversation, pioneering baseball and soccer stars would probably be mentioned first. After all,...
Washington Wizards forward Rui Hachimura was chosen for the NBA All-Rookie Second Team, the league announced on Tuesday, September 15. A global panel of...
The defining moment of Ayaka Takahashi’s badminton career happened four years ago at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Takahashi and partner Misaki Matsutomo...
You’ve got to learn how to walk before you can run. Similarly, as a young player, Rui Hachimura is learning what it takes to...
The Rakuten Japan Open, a men's ATP Tour event, was canceled in June, and the Hana-Cupid Japan Women's Open was called off as well....
Rookie forward Rui Hachimura and the Washington Wizards played their first exhibition game of the NBA restart at Walt Disney World in Florida on Wednesday, July...
Rookie forward Rui Hachimura is focused on his job, serious about what he needs to do to get better. Hachimura used his downtime during...
Rui Hachimura and the Washington Wizards are returning to competition this summer after NBA owners approved a plan to relaunch the season on July...