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 ...

Seventy-six per cent of the WSL’s broadcast audience last season came from outside of the UK, according to figures supplied ...

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.

He will join Japan’s Fukushima United on loan until June for what will be his 41st season as a professional footballer. Read ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even with the top continental ranking and players of vast international experience, Hajime Moriyasu’s Japan squad faces a journey into the unknown in back-to-back World Cup qualifiers against North ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...