TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Volleyball Association's search for its women's national team head coach has identified Ferhat Akbas, as the top candidate, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.

Video shows the challenges of over tourism in Japan's cultural hubs. Tourism often transforms beautiful cities into thriving economic hubs, boosting their global fame and foreign exchange reserves.

TOKYO -- After living through the tumultuous Showa period (1926-1989), the entire Heisei (1989-2019) and into the current Reiwa era, Japan's Princess Yuriko died on Nov. 15 at 101. In a series of ...

The volleyballs donated by Japan will boost the grassroots development program in provinces. “The Philippines is a volleyball country. That’s our main slogan now,” said Suzara, also the FIVB ...

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the Seattle Mariners, paving the way for a generation of players in the ...

Hayato Kawamura, a 38-year-old from Osaka, Japan, has attracted widespread online attention for earning 140 million yen (approximately Rs 7.72 Crore) by renting out 200 old, decayed houses.

President Joe Biden said Friday that he has decided to block a $15 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by the Japanese company Nippon Steel, capping off a yearlong business saga that drifted into ...

While decent, often well-groomed 6-8-foot-Hawaiian waves graced every single heat from sunup to sundown, it was Team Japan in their second heat of the day who truly caught the beat and tuned into ...

MANILA, Philippines — The UAAP squads are leaving no stone unturned as they held overseas training camps ahead of the Season 87 men’s and women’s volleyball ... returned to Japan for ...

A night out that ends with a slap to the face might be a sign to call it quits for most, but not in Japan, where one popular bar is turning it into its main attraction. At Muscle Girls Bar ...

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