Evergreen 58-year-old striker Kazuyoshi Miura is set to join a Japanese third-division team to begin his 41th season as a ...

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.

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 ...

The 30-year-old suffered the injury while playing in Monaco's 2-1 win over Auxerre in the French Cup on Sunday. Read more at ...

Japan midfielder Takumi Minamino has torn the ACL in his left knee while playing for Monaco and will almost certainly miss the World Cup.

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kunishige Kamamoto, who scored 75 goals in 76 games for Japan's national team, died Sunday according to the Japan Football Association. He was 81 and the association said he died of ...

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 ...