Are Ayase Ueda and Japan are poised to take the 2026 World Cup by storm? ESPN tackles that, and Asia's other big talking ...

Urawa Reds will fly the flag as Japan's sole representative at the new 32-team Club World Cup kicking off Saturday in the ...

FIFA World Cup-bound Japan need someone to step up as an out-and-out striker, their manager Hajime Moriyasu said Wednesday. Wednesday marked one year until the start of the World Cup, to be co-hosted ...

For only the second time in history, the Socceroos have made the World Cup without the need for a playoff. It mightn't have ...

Kodai Senga is quietly piecing together a Cy Young Award season for the Mets. After his six-inning, no-decision against the Rockies, Senga maintained his 6-3 record with a league-low 1.59 ERA and 65 ...

Three more Asian teams have punched their tickets to the 2026 FIFA World Cup following the latest round of qualifiers, with ...

Hajime Moriyasu has already led Japan to qualification for next year's World Cup finals but there was no disguising his ...

Athletes at next year's Asian Games in Japan will stay on a "floating village" cruise ship and in converted shipping ...

China has qualified for only one men’s World Cup. That was 2002 when it went scoreless and lost all three matches. Soccer’s ...

Japan will be hoping sweeping changes to the current squad will hold them in good stead for next year's World Cup.

Australia's Milos Degenek said he has been impressing on younger teammates how tough it is to get to the World Cup through ...

Shigeo Nagashima, considered Japan's "Mr. Baseball," died at the age of 89, and the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani and others are ...