The Japanese government’s Japan Sports Agency (JSA) should adopt policies to promote safe sports in Japan by ending abuses ...

Dodgers ace and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto will pitch for Japan in the 2026 WBC, marking his second straight ...

Dear Commissioner Junichi Kawai, On behalf of 12 organizations and individuals, we would like to extend our warmest congratulations on your recent appointment as Commissioner of the Japan Sports ...

Here is Japan's World Cup group stage opponents, which stadiums they will play at, and the times for the games.

TOKYO (AP) — Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki is only 21 but has moved just one step from the top rank of Japan's national sport. In an elaborate ceremony on Wednesday, he was promoted by the Japan ...

Sumo is Japan’s beloved sport. Yokozuna is the sport’s most prestigious title. And after 20 years of near-total dominance by Mongolian giants, a Japanese man once again holds the highest title in the ...

Shohei Ohtani was about halfway through his home-run trot when Taro Abe stood up from his second-row seat in the Vin Scully Press Box and tucked his green scorebook under his right arm. “Let’s go,” ...

(The Conversation) — A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony. Tournaments begin with a line of burly men ...