After 17 months of negotiations, the Women's National Basketball Players Association and WNBA came to a tentative agreement ...

Japan concluded the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with a record haul of 27 gold medals, far exceeding the previous high of 16 at ...

The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to showcase Japan’s growing ethnic diversity, but the Games have also dragged into the ...

A giant steel pipe protruded from the ground on Wednesday on a highway in Osaka city in western Japan, rising as high as 13 ...

Elite athletes like Michael Phelps and PV Sindhu openly discuss mental health challenges, a topic previously taboo. Indian ...

Alex Eala went down to a crushing defeat at the hands of world No. 14 Linda Noskova, 6-2, 6-0, in their Round of 16 duel in ...

TOKYO - The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Japan marks 15 yrs since ...

Both have four majors and have spent time at world No. 1, but Osaka and Sabalenka have built their worlds in different ways.

The relationship between female athletes and fashion is complicated, which is surprising because when it comes to male ...

Hokkaido, the northernmost island in Japan, is famed for its fishing, with trout, salmon and crab among the delicacies that ...

Tokyo, March 2 (Jiji Press)--Kazumasa Nagai, the Japanese graphic designer best known for creating the symbol for the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics, died of acute respiratory failure on Feb. 23. He was ...