Football fever is at its peak right now thanks to a little thing called the World Cup, and The Pokémon Company is making it ...

Fans who attend home matches for the clubs from the start of the Japanese season until September will be able to receive a ...

Japan play Brazil in a World Cup knockout game and the country owes much of its international success to one of Brazil's ...

As part of our Language of Soccer World Cup series, The Athletic is speaking to supporters of all 48 nations competing at the 2026 edition to capture their unique football culture, distilled into a ...

Recently, while discussing the World Cup with a Japanese journalist, I heard, “This time, South Korea’s image in Japan has ...

Hajime Moriyasu's quest to lead Japan deep into the World Cup faces a master-versus-apprentice last-32 clash ​on Monday ...

Japan have never won a World Cup knock-out match in four attempts and in order to finally break the curse they must beat no ...

Some Chinese fans in Shanghai are reported to have worn Japanese national team jerseys and cheered Japan’s win over Tunisia ...

Nobody can predict how the 48 teams will do at the FIFA World Cup this summer, but if you wanted to gamble on Japan being the tidiest team, you’d surely clean up at the bookies. Thanks to a societal ...

By Michael Kahn HOUSTON, June 29 (Reuters) - Japan’s last-gasp World Cup defeat by Brazil in a match where they stifled the ...