Japan’s particular run through Group E to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup seems to have surprised everyone—but not super-sub Ritsu Doan.

A team of researchers has reported a breakthrough in making sperm cell precursors in vitro that could be used in a number of ...

BEIJING--Miho Takagi won her fourth speedskating medal of the Beijing Games and the first individual gold of her career with an Olympic-record victory in the women’s 1,000 meters Thursday.

Jurgen Klinsmann has been fired as head coach of the South Korean national team after an Asian Cup semifinal exit and reports of infighting among star players, ending a turbulent 12 months for the ...

Another World Cup day, another World Cup shock. Substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano scored late goals Wednesday to help Japan come from behind and upset Germany 2-1. Both Doan and Asano play for ...

Saki Kumagai has good reason to feel confident in her teambuilding efforts after the Japanese women’s national soccer squad scored a dramatic 5-0 victory over Zambia in its opening match of the ...

Tokyo Olympics medalist Kazuma Kaya said Japan would field its strongest men’s gymnastics squad yet at Paris 2024, where his only goal was to win the team title to improve on the silver medal he ...

Amid the pomp and circumstance, the opening ceremony for the famed National High School Baseball Championship featured a changing sign of the times.

PARIS--Japan's Yuto Horigome retained his Olympic title in men's street skateboarding in Paris on Monday, clinching the top of the podium on his final trick in a nerve-searing final.

Momiji Nishiya of Japan has won the first ever Olympic skateboard competition for women. The 13-year-old gave the host nation a sweep of golds in the street event a day after after Yuto Horigome won ...