Japan through to Olympic women soccer final

Japan’s women soccer team will face United States in the Olympic tournament’s final on Thursday, in a repeat of last Read more ...

Japan’s soccer teams through to Olympic semifinals

Both men and women Japanese national teams have qualified for semifinals in their respective Olympic soccer tournaments, with good chances Read more ...

Japan’s Uchimura wins gold medal in all-around gymnastics

Kohei Uchimura won the gold medal on Wednesday in the Olympic men’s all-around event in gymnastics, becoming the first Japanese Read more ...

Strategic draw leads Japan to Olympic soccer quarter-finals

Japan only got a draw against South Africa (0-0) in the final group match of the Olympic women’s footbal tournament, Read more ...

Japan wins first gold at the Olympics

Japan got its first gold medal at the Olympic Games on Monday, through judoka Kaori Matsumoto, who defeated Romanian Corina Read more ...

Japanese soccer teams advance in Olympic tournament

Japanese national soccer teams continue their quest at the Olympic Games, with the men squad already reaching quarter finals after Read more ...

Japan gets shocking win over Spain at Olympics

Japan’s male soccer team managed to beat big medal favourites Spain by 1-0 at the Olympic Games in Great Britain, Read more ...

Japan’s women debut with victory at the Olympics

Japan’s women national soccer team won their first game at the Olympic Games against Canada (2-1), marking a promising debut Read more ...

Children send “tsunami-medals” to Olympic athletes

Medals made from wood debris from last year’s tsunami were given to all of Japan’s Olympic Games participants, as a Read more ...

Japanese player enters poker history

Japan is greeting its first player to ever win the World Series of Poker (WSOP), Naoya Kihara, who came on Read more ...

Japanese boxer to face Thai champion in September

Japanese boxer Nobuo Nashiro, former World Boxing Association super flyweight champion, is putting his career on the line in September, Read more ...

Japanese athletes extra-motivated by tsunami memories

One tenth of Japan’s 293 Olympian team members are directly related to the Tohoku region, being born and/or schooled there. Read more ...

Five Japanese Olympians on the watch-list

Five athletes in the Japanese delegation at the 2012 London Olympics are especially interesting and deserve to be closely watched Read more ...

Female football team flew economy class to the Olympics

Japan’s women national football team members travelled to Europe for the Olympics in economy class, while their presumably less-successful male Read more ...

Japanese goalkeeper transferred by top Belgian team

Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima is moving from the Belgian team Lierse to higher-ranked club Standard Liege, also in Belgium, despite Read more ...

Japan’s Kagawa vows to secure starting slot at Manchester Utd

Japanese football star Shinji Kagawa has left on Tuesday for England to join his new squad, Manchester United, seeking a Read more ...