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Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds

Race walker Hayato Katsuki has Japan's only medal so far, but team officials are optimistic that there's more to come.
Katie Moon competes in the women's pole vault final during the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Wednesday. The American won the gold medal.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Katie Moon beats fellow American Sandi Morris for gold in pole vault final in Tokyo

Moon cleared 4.90 meters to claim gold.
KDDI has launched a new service that allows direct linkups between smartphones and the Starlink satellite communication network.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2025

In shift from price-cutting trend, Japan's telecom firms hike rates as costs rise

Desperate to ensure price hikes are accepted by subscribers, telecom carriers have improved their networks and service quality, and offered extra services.
Organizers of the World Athletics Championships said over 500,000 tickets had been sold and that they are expecting to end the event in front of large crowds this weekend.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 18, 2025

World Athletics stars relish Tokyo atmosphere after COVID-hit Olympics

For many athletes competing at the world championships in Tokyo this week who also competed at the COVID-hit Summer Games, the experience has been like night and day.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone celebrates after winning the women's 400-meter world title at Tokyo's National Stadium on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone runs second-fastest time ever to win 400-meter world title

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone claimed gold after beating Marileidy Paulino to the finish line.
Botswana's Busang Collen Kebinatshipi (left) crosses the finish line ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's Jereem Richards in the men's 400-meter final at the world championships at National Stadium on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 18, 2025

Busang Collen Kebinatshipi wins men's 400 final; Yuki Joseph Nakajima finishes sixth

Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago finished in second place with a national record of 43.72, while Kebinatshipi’s compatriot Bayapo Ndori was third with a season best of 44.20.
American Noah Lyles competes in the men's 200-meter semifinals at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 18, 2025

Noah Lyles makes statement ahead of 200-meter final at world championships

Lyles ran a 19.51 in the semifinals.
Lock Otoka Yoshimura claims a lineout during Japan's Women's Rugby World Cup match against Spain in York, England, on Sept. 7.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Sep 19, 2025

Rugby chiefs want women's Global Series to build on World Cup 'energy'

The competition builds on the existing WXV tournament, created to bolster international women's rugby union between World Cups.
Marcus Rashford celebrates after scoring Barcelona's first goal during a Champions League game against Newcastle on Thursday.
SOCCER
Sep 19, 2025

Rashford shines with two goals in Barcelona's win at Newcastle

Rashford's stunning double suggests he is finally recovering his old form after falling out of favor at Manchester United.
Australian sprinter Gout Gout during the men's 200-meter semifinals at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday in Tokyo
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

Australian teen sensation Gout Gout hails learning experience at debut worlds

Following his exit, Gout reflected on what it was like to rub shoulders with some of sprinting's biggest names.
Runners compete in the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

Anti-doping work helping more countries medal in World Athletics, AIU chief says

The AIU is seen by many as the benchmark across all sport for fighting the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen executes a shovel pass for a touchdown during Buffalo's win over the Dolphins on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Sep 19, 2025

Josh Allen tosses three TDs as Bills take charge late to beat Dolphins

Allen completed 22 of 28 attempts for 213 yards, and his go-ahead strike to Khalil Shakir was the 200th regular-season TD pass of his career.
Yuki Joseph Nakajima after finishing sixth in the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

How Yuki Joseph Nakajima turned failures into breakout success at Tokyo worlds

Nakajima was the first Japanese runner to make the 400 final since Susumu Takano in 1991 and he even managed to finish one place higher than his senior compatriot.
Haruka Kitaguchi competes in the women's javelin throw during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi fails to qualify for women's javelin final

Momone Ueda finished one spot ahead of Kitaguchi and narrowly missed out on a spot in the final.
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles holds up four fingers after winning his fourth straight men's 200-meter title at the world championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

Noah Lyles and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden win 200-meter titles on golden night for U.S.

Lyles finished with a time of 19.52 seconds and joined Jamaican great Usain Bolt as the only men to win four straight world titles at the distance.
Haruka Kitaguchi could not make it out of the qualifying round of the women's javelin throw at the world championships on Friday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 20, 2025

Japan’s hopes too much for Haruka Kitaguchi’s elbow to bear at worlds

"I don’t think life is over just because I did not make it to the finals here," she said. "I might need a long break, but I want to come back stronger.”
Nanako Fujii celebrates as she crosses the line to take bronze in the women's 35-kilometer race walk on Saturday at National Stadium in Tokyo.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025

Nanako Fujii takes bronze in 20 km race walk for Japan's second medal at worlds

The 26-year-old became the first Japanese woman to capture a medal in a race walk event at the World Athletics Championships or the Olympics.
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles celebrates with a gesture from the "Dragon Ball" anime series after winning gold in the men's 200-meter final on Friday in Tokyo.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025

Noah Lyles wants athletics to stop being an ‘amateur sport’

The American sprinter has consistently voiced his frustration with the sport’s dwindling public interest in non-Olympic years.
Japan's 4x100-meter relay team (from left, Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa celebrate after qualifying for the final at the world championships at National Stadium on Saturday night.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025

Japan qualifies for men's 4x100 relay final at world championships

Japan finished in a time of 38.07 seconds.
England's Ellie Kildunne scores her team's fourth try during its Women's Rugby World Cup semifinal win over France in Bristol, England, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Sep 21, 2025

Brilliant Kildunne helps England to grind down France and reach World Cup final

England's win set up an enticing showdown with Canada next Saturday.
Gold medalist Beatrice Chebet (left) celebrates with Kenyan compatriot Faith Kipyegon after the women's 5000-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 21, 2025

Chebet beats Kipyegon in stunning sprint finish to win 5,000-meter showdown

The world record-holder's victory completed her set of global distance titles and denied 1,500-meter champion Kipyegon a double of her own in Tokyo.
Japan head coach Eddie Jones during a training session in November last year.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Sep 21, 2025

Fiji beats Japan in Pacific Nations Cup rugby final

Fiji seized a 33-10 lead on Nasova's try early in the second half and then held off a furious Japan rally over the final minutes in a rematch of last year's final.
Noah Lyles celebrates as he crosses the finish line to give the United States the victory in the men's 4x100-meter relay at the world championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 21, 2025

U.S. men grab gold in 4x100-meter relay on final day of worlds; Japan sixth

The U.S. beat Canada to the gold medal to win the men's relay.
Japan's Mebuki Suzuki in action with Uganda's Oscar Chelimo in the men's 10,000 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sept. 14
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 22, 2025

The Japanese face and body patches that have had the world wondering

Some athletes at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo swear by the products.
Yuki Joseph Nakajima after placing sixth in the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 22, 2025

World championships bring few medals but win big with the crowds

Japan is now looking ahead to the Asian Games in Nagoya in 2026, the next world championships in Beijing in 2027 and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel competes in the men's Elite Individual Time Trial cycling event during the UCI 2025 Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Sep 23, 2025

Evenepoel completes time-trial triple as Pogacar left trailing

Pogacar, who celebrated his 27th birthday on Sunday, had set out to do the time trial and road race double at the world championship, but finished fourth.
Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda arrives at the circuit ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 24, 2025

Red Bull in no rush to make 2026 driver decisions after strong weekend in Baku

Only Max Verstappen can be completely sure of who he will be racing for next year and Red Bull is in no rush to decide his teammate after a record of failure with previous moves.
American Bryson DeChambeau during a practice round ahead of the Ryder Cup in Farmingdale, New York, on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 24, 2025

U.S. hails 'gladiator' DeChambeau as Ryder Cup controversy swirls

Two-time U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau was hailed by United States teammates as an explosive X-factor, gladiator and showman on Tuesday as controversy erupted around him at the Ryder Cup.
Ducati rider Marc Marquez leads the San Marino MotoGP on Sept. 14.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 24, 2025

Brilliant Marquez poised to seal seventh MotoGP title in Japan

The Spanish Ducati rider is on a whopping 512 points and needs just three points more than his brother Alex Marquez to win the title.
Justin Rose lines up a shot during a practice round ahead of the Ryder Cup in Farmingdale, New York, on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 25, 2025

Europe's Justin Rose would gladly accept Ryder Cup trophy from Donald Trump

Rose said the feeling around Team Europe is that Trump's presence will spark even more patriotic vibes.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.

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