Japanese football has preferred action over noise. The country has spent decades carefully shaping the J.League, developing a domestic ecosystem that now exports talent to the biggest leagues in ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Korea and Japan are mulling a bid to co-host the 2035 men's Asian Cup, officials from both countries said Friday, joining forces again after staging the World Cup in 2002. A Korea Football ...

Former Japan forward and 58-year-old Kazuyoshi Miura is joining Fukushima United in the J-League third division on loan until ...

Japanese football legend Kazuyoshi Miura said his passion for playing the game was as strong as ever after signing for a ...

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 ...

Japanese football plays a crucial supplementary role in Tokyo’s efforts to wedge itself between Southeast Asian states and China. The performances of the Japanese and South Korean men’s national teams ...

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 ...

Japan defender Tomoya Ando has joined St. Pauli in the German Bundesliga from J-League first-division side Avispa Fukuoka, ...

“To be honest with you, it was not my dream,” Nakata admits, now, to CNN’s Human to Hero series, as he reflects on the emotions he was feeling at his third World Cup, in Germany in 2006. The fans, the ...