A Korea Football Association official said that the country's soccer chiefs are considering various options and co-hosting ...
Japan will play two games in Dallas, Texas, on either side of a match in Mexico's Monterrey in the 2026 World Cup group stage ...
Japanese football has paid tribute to Kunishige Kamamoto after the country's most prolific striker died aged 81. Kamamoto, who scored 75 goals in 76 appearances for Japan, died on Sunday of pneumonia.
Four months before the 2011 Women’s World Cup final, Japan was devastated by the largest earthquake ever recorded in the country’s history. The earthquake triggered a tsunami causing a nuclear ...
Vietnam has joined Japan as the only two nations to secure qualification to every Asian football tournament this year.
The head of Japan’s professional female football league said support for women’s sports still lags behind other countries, even as global interest is rising. Haruna Takata, who chairs the two-year-old ...
Japan has so many of the ingredients to be a football powerhouse: third-biggest economy in the world, population of 125 million people, a national hunger for football, a prominent domestic league and ...
Eiji Kawashima can close his eyes and immediately be taken back to his first World Cup experience. The goalkeeper was 19, sitting somewhere high above the action at Saitama Stadium as Roberto Carlos ...
The 2022 World Cup held in Qatar had several thrills and spills, but for the Asian continent, it was special for several reasons. After decades of disappointment, this World Cup felt like Asian ...
South Korea and Japan are mulling a bid to co-host the 2035 men's Asian Cup, officials from both countries said Friday, ...