FOX 4 went overseas to get a closer look at one of the teams playing in North Texas during the FIFA World Cup this summer.

TOKYO (AP) — Injured Premier League winger Kaoru Mitoma was left out of Japan’s World Cup squad on Friday when coach Hajime Moriyasu named his 26 players for the tournament starting next month in ...

Discover Japan’s full profile for the 2026 FIFA World Cup: squad, stars, schedule, history, and expectations for the Samurai ...

This is the last of a six-article series looking at figures who have played a pivotal role in a modern football success story. The first piece, on the rebuilding of Ajax, can be found here. Part two, ...

Having served in an interim capacity following the departure of Nils Nielsen, 49-year-old Michihisa Kano has been handed the Nadeshiko reins on a permanent basis.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Football players from Ivy League schools ran drills and answered questions during a recent visit to the high school at this airlift hub in western Tokyo. The Ivy League team ...

TOKYO — A pair of Air Force veterans — both former high school football players — are in Japan with a plan to grow the sport and help young American and Japanese players find a professional career.

A court in France has sentenced a senior Japan Football Association official to a suspended jail term of 18 months after finding him guilty of viewing photographs of child sexual abuse during a plane ...

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 ...

image: The oldest known photo of women's football in Japan, from 1916 (Taisho 5). It was discovered in Hundred Years' History, a book detailing the history of the Oita Prefectural Public High School ...