The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...

From classic sights to lesser-known gems and transport tips to seasonal highlights, here’s the lowdown on visiting Japan.

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will ...

It was 70 years ago today, on 16 March 1955, that Adhemar Ferreira da Silva became the first man to triple jump beyond 16.50m ...

There have been 10 games when a player has notched double-digit shot attempts since 2021. Nine of the 10 were active members of the USWNT. The only exception, and the sole 10-shot firer of 2024, was ...

TOKYO, JAPAN, March 02 — Converted steeplechaser Tadese Takele sped along a fast learning curve in the Tokyo Marathon as the 23-year Ethiopian ran 2:03:23 to win his first WMM title in just his third ...

Nicholas Kimeli is determined to reclaim Kenya’s dominance in the 5000m and 10,000m, vowing to go after Ugandans and ...

In Olympic heptathlon competition she won the silver medal in ... Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete, as well as USA Track & Field's Jesse Owens Award in 1986 and '87. In 1999, she was ...

Ethiopians Tadese Takele and Sutume Kebede won their divisions of the Tokyo Marathon on a nearly perfect spring day in the Japanese capital on Sunday.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will resign as a member of the Olympic body after handing the reins to his presidential successor in June, the IOC said Wednesday. Bach ...

Japan’s teenage surfing sensation Shino Matsuda has a secret weapon as she targets gold at next year’s Tokyo Olympics – mum’s rice balls. Hotshot Shino, 16, caught the surfing bug as a ...