Hawaii place-kicker Kansei Matsuzawa is within striking distance of becoming the first NFL player born and raised in Japan.

Japan dispatched Australia 8-0 in the Tokyo Deaflympics men's football tournament Friday as the multi-sport event kicked o ...

Two nations have formed a genuine bond at the FIFA U-17 World Cup and are supporting each other as Qatar 2025 unfolds, with a meeting in the final still a possibility.

Japan have set themselves the ambitious target of winning next year's World Cup and coach Hajime Moriyasu believes they are ...

Keisuke Honda, one of Japan’s biggest football stars in the first two decades of the millennium, said on Tuesday his country ...

PARMA, Italy, Nov 10 (Kyodo/APP): Goalkeeper Zion Suzuki has withdrawn from the Japan squad for upcoming international football friendlies against Ghana and Bolivia after suffering fracture in his ...

Japan manager Hajime Moriyasu marked his 100th game in charge with a win on Tuesday as Daichi Kamada, Shuto Machino and Keito ...

Japan have never gone beyond the round of 16 at a World Cup but Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, the country's top football official, told ...

Morocco will kick off their campaign in the U17 World Cup against Japan, in a clash counting for the opening day of Group B.

Japan scored all five of their spot-kicks in the shootout, but North Korean Han Il-Bok, who came on as an injury-time substitute for the shootout, blasted his penalty over the bar and sealed Japan's ...

A court in France has sentenced a senior Japan Football Association official to a suspended jail term of 18 months after finding him guilty of viewing photographs of child sexual abuse during a plane ...