Japan U-17 star Minato Yoshida has promised to bring his best form against South Africa in their FIFA U-17 World Cup clash.

SAITAMA, Japan — Japan became the first team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup after beating Bahrain 2-0 at Saitama Stadium on Thursday. Second-half goals from Daichi Kamada and Takefusa Kubo ensured ...

While the United States drowns in talk about its underachieving “Golden Generation,” Japan has quietly gone about its work — ...

Japan fought back from 2-0 down to beat Brazil 3-2 in an epic friendly in Tokyo on Tuesday. Carlo Ancelotti made plenty of ...

The Kirin Cup Soccer is an association football tournament organised in Japan by the Kirin Brewery Company. The host, Japan, is a participant in every edition since it was founded in 1978, then known ...

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

Coming off a humbling 2-0 defeat against South Korea on Saturday, Sept. 6, coach Mauricio Pochettino’s United States squad will look to rebound against another strong squad from East Asia: Japan.

The U.S. women's soccer team is moving on to the semifinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics after beating Japan 1-0 in extra time in a quarterfinal match as Team USA chases its first gold since 2012.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Toko Koga scored early in the second half and Japan handed the United States its first loss under coach Emma Hayes with a 2-1 victory Wednesday night in the SheBelieves Cup title game ...

Japan, where viewing habits have been slow to change, is now fully in the streaming era, though not everyone is ready to come ...

At 37, Juan Mata has won just about everything you can in the soccer world. So why is he still chasing minutes in the ...

The setting was Wembley, that most august of football stadiums. More than 61,000 soccer fans were in attendance to catch the Olympic women’s soccer semifinal. As a gray sky menaced rain on Monday ...