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France center Emilien Gailleton (left) and flyhalf Romain Ntamack take part in a training session in Marcoussis, France, on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Rusty France face 'tired' Australia at end of torrid year
By Illtud DAFYDD
Joe Schmidt's Wallabies are one loss away from a first winless European tour since 1958 and a record 10th defeat of the year.
Miles Chamley-Watson (left) of the United States in action against Tommaso Marini of Italy during the 2024 Paris Games in Paris in August 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Fencing
U.S. Olympic fencer Chamley-Watson to launch World Fencing League
By Eyk Henning and Vanessa Perdomo
The new league is part of a growing trend in which athletes and investors are organizing Olympic sports into professional leagues.
Shedeur Sanders is scheduled to make his first start for the Browns this week.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Presence of Shedeur Sanders spices up clash between lowly Browns and Raiders
Sanders is No. 42 on the list of players anointed QB1 by the franchise since returning to the league in 1999.
McLaren driver Lando Norris celebrates after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo on Nov. 9.
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Nov 20, 2025
Formula One title contenders brace for high-stakes battle in Las Vegas
McLaren has won 14 of 21 races so far, and Lando Norris is chasing his third win in a row.
Maki Yamada (center) after winning the men's 400-meter race during the Tokyo Deaflympics on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Nov 19, 2025
Sprinter Yamada wins Japan's first gold at Tokyo Deaflympics
Maki Yamada finished the race in 47.61 seconds, rewriting his own deaf Japan record.
England's Jamie Smith (far left) and Josh Tongue (center left) pose with Australia's Cameron Green (center right) and Alex Carey during a media event ahead of the Ashes cricket test series, in Perth on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Nov 18, 2025
Grateful Green primed for full-throttle Ashes opener
By Joel Dubber
The 26-year-old fast-bowling all-rounder was set back by a side strain last month having overcome a serious 2024 back injury.
Twickenham, in London, is set to host the inaugural Nations Championship Finals Weekend, with three days of double-headers between Nov. 27 and 29, 2026.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Nov 18, 2025
Rugby chiefs unveil 'watershed' Nations Championship
The Nations Championship, which starts in July 2026, will replace ad-hoc tours and one-off tests.
Oscar Piastri has won Australian sport's highest honor, the Don Award.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Nov 18, 2025
Oscar Piastri wins Australia's top sports honor
The 24-year has ignited national pride as he bids to become Australia's third Formula One world champion after Jack Brabham and Alan Jones.
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen celebrates on the podium with a reindeer after winning the men's slalom event in Kittila, Finland, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Winter Sports
Nov 17, 2025
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen earns Brazil's first Alpine Ski World Cup win
Norway-born Pinheiro Braathen is racing for his mother's homeland of Brazil after falling out with the Norwegian ski federation.
Two Iranian girls compete during an all-female karate competition in Tehran on Nov. 6. The event featured around 230 participants, including 5-year-old girls.
MORE SPORTS / Karate
Nov 17, 2025
Iranian girls use karate to kick down social barriers
By Majid SOURATI
All martial arts were temporarily banned for women after the 1979 Islamic Revolution but were later reinstated under stricter dress code regulations.

Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
Yen rout brings talk of ¥160 to the dollar and possible intervention
The yen has been weak against the U.S. dollar in recent weeks, with some analysts expecting the retreat to continue.
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan, reports say
A sign reading, "Suspend the sales of all fish products imported from Japan" is displayed in an area home to Japanese restaurants in Beijing in August 2023. China will reimpose a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, media reports in Tokyo said Wednesday, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries deepens.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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