Please disable the ad blocking feature.

To use this site, please disable the ad blocking feature and reload the page.

This website uses cookies to collect information about your visit for purposes such as showing you personalized ads and content, and analyzing our website traffic. By clicking “Accept all,” you will allow the use of these cookies.

Users accessing this site from EEA countries and UK are unable to view this site without your consent. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

  • The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun
  • Japanese
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • SIGN UP
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • SIGN UP
  • Latest News
  • Most Read
  • Politics
    • Politics & Government
    • Defense & Security
    • Elections
    • Political Series
    • G7 Summit
  • Society
    • General News
    • Crime & Courts
    • Imperial Family
    • Obituaries
    • Social Series
    • Coronavirus
    • Noto Peninsula Earthquake
  • Business
    • Economy
    • Companies
    • Markets
    • Business Series
    • YIES
  • World
    • Asia - Pacific
    • US & Canada
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Wider World
    • Global
    • US Presidential Election
  • News Services
    • Jiji Press
    • Washington Post
    • Associated Press
    • Reuters
    • AFP - Jiji
  • Editorial & Columns
    • Yomiuri Editorial
    • Political Pulse
    • Insights into the World
    • Cultural Viewpoints
    • Outside Contributors
    • Asia Inside Review
  • Sports
    • Baseball
    • Soccer
    • Basketball
    • Rugby
    • Golf
    • Tennis
    • Sumo
    • Figure Skating
    • Other Sports
    • Soccer World Cup
    • Olympics & Paralympics
  • Science & Nature
    • Science
    • Technology
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
  • Culture
    • Manga & Anime
    • Film & TV
    • Kabuki / Noh / Rakugo
    • Performing Arts
    • Art
    • Fashion
    • Music
    • Books & Literature
    • Museums
  • JN Specialties
    • Perspectives
    • Donald Keene’s Legacy
    • Ramen of Japan
    • Delicious Beautiful Spectacular JAPAN
    • Decommissioning Fukushima
    • Weekly Edition
    • Vantage Point
    • Video
  • Features
    • Delicious
    • Japan in Focus
    • Travel Spots
    • Troubleshooter
    • Neko Pitcher
    • Political Cartoons
  • Sudoku
  • Latest News
  • Most Read
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Business
  • World
  • News Services
  • Editorial & Columns
  • Sports
  • Science & Nature
  • Culture
  • JN Specialities
  • Features
  • Sudoku
  • Home Page
  • Latest News
  • Most Read
  • Politics.
    • Politics & Government
    • Defense & Security
    • Elections
    • Political Series
    • G7 Summit
  • Society.
    • General News
    • Crime & Courts
    • Imperial Family
    • Obituaries
    • Social Series
    • Coronavirus
    • Noto Peninsula Earthquake
  • Business.
    • Economy
    • Companies
    • Markets
    • Business Series
    • YIES
  • World.
    • US Presidential Election
    • Asia - Pacific
    • US & Canada
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Wider World
    • Global
  • News Services.
    • Jiji Press
    • Washington Post
    • Associated Press
    • Reuters
    • AFP - Jiji
  • Editorial & Columns.
    • Yomiuri Editorial
    • Political Pulse
    • Insights into the World
    • Cultural Viewpoints
    • Outside Contributors
    • Asia Inside Review
  • Sports.
    • Baseball
    • Soccer
    • Basketball
    • Rugby
    • Golf
    • Tennis
    • Sumo
    • Figure Skating
    • Other Sports
    • Soccer World Cup
    • Olympics & Paralympics
  • Science & Nature.
    • Science
    • Technology
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
  • Culture.
    • Manga & Anime
    • Film & TV
    • Kabuki / Noh / Rakugo
    • Performing Arts
    • Art
    • Fashion
    • Music
    • Books & Literature
    • Museums
  • JN Specialties.
    • Perspectives
    • Donald Keene’s Legacy
    • Ramen of Japan
    • Delicious Beautiful Spectacular JAPAN
    • Decommissioning Fukushima
    • Weekly Edition
    • Vantage Point
    • Video
  • Features.
    • Delicious
    • Japan in Focus
    • Travel Spots
    • Troubleshooter
    • Neko Pitcher
    • Political Cartoons
  • Sudoku

Hot word :

  • #Great East Japan Earthquake
  • #Sanae Takaichi
  • #World Baseball Classic
  • #Cherry Blossom
  • #Milano Cortina 2026
  • LOGIN
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • LOGIN
  • SIGN UP
  • MY ACCOUNT
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • MY ACCOUNT
  • SIGN UP
  • Latest News
  • Most Read
  • Politics
    • Politics & Government
    • Defense & Security
    • Elections
    • Political Series
    • G7 Summit
  • Society
    • General News
    • Crime & Courts
    • Imperial Family
    • Obituaries
    • Social Series
    • Coronavirus
    • Noto Peninsula Earthquake
  • Business
    • Economy
    • Companies
    • Markets
    • Business Series
    • YIES
  • World
    • US Presidential Election
    • Asia - Pacific
    • US & Canada
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Wider World
    • Global
  • News Services
    • Jiji Press
    • Washington Post
    • Associated Press
    • Reuters
    • AFP - Jiji
  • Editorial & Columns
    • Yomiuri Editorial
    • Political Pulse
    • Insights into the World
    • Cultural Viewpoints
    • Outside Contributors
    • Asia Inside Review
  • Sports
    • Baseball
    • Soccer
    • Basketball
    • Rugby
    • Golf
    • Tennis
    • Sumo
    • Figure Skating
    • Other Sports
    • Soccer World Cup
    • Olympics & Paralympics
  • Science & Nature
    • Science
    • Technology
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
  • Culture
    • Manga & Anime
    • Film & TV
    • Kabuki / Noh / Rakugo
    • Performing Arts
    • Art
    • Fashion
    • Music
    • Books & Literature
    • Museums
  • JN Specialties
    • Perspectives
    • Donald Keene’s Legacy
    • Ramen of Japan
    • Delicious Beautiful Spectacular JAPAN
    • Decommissioning Fukushima
    • Weekly Edition
    • Vantage Point
    • Video
  • Features
    • Delicious
    • Japan in Focus
    • Travel Spots
    • Troubleshooter
    • Neko Pitcher
    • Political Cartoons
  • Sudoku

Hot word :

  • #Great East Japan Earthquake
  • #Sanae Takaichi
  • #World Baseball Classic
  • #Cherry Blossom
  • #Milano Cortina 2026
Home>Sports>Other Sports
Sports

Other Sports

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …
  • 22
  • Japan’s Muratake Fifth in 110 Meters Hurdles at Worlds in Tokyo

    Tokyo, Sept. 16 (Jiji Press)—Japan’s Rachid Muratake shone in the World Athletics Championships i...

    September 17, 2025

    #World Athletics Championships
  • American Cordell Tinch Goes from the ‘Couch’ to Gold Medalist in the Track and Field Worlds

    TOKYO (AP) — From “the couch” to a world champion.

    ...

    September 17, 2025

    #World Athletics Championships
  • Duplantis Gives Japanese Fans What They Came for — Another World Record in Pole Vault

    TOKYO (AP) — Armand “Mondo” Duplantis traded handshakes and hugs with the pole vaulters he'd just...

    September 16, 2025

    #World Athletics Championships
  • ‘Smart’ Inoue Beats Akhmadaliev by Unanimous Decision

    NAGOYA (AFP-Jiji) — Japan’s Naoya Inoue gave a masterclass of technical boxing to beat Uzbekistan...

    September 15, 2025

  • Authorities Say over 100,000 at Pro-Palestinian Protests That Forced Early End to Spanish Vuelta

    MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities said more than 100,000 people took part in the pro-Palestinian ...

    September 15, 2025

  • Oblique Seville Joins Bolt as a Jamaican Sprint Champ. Jefferson-Wooden Wins Gold for US

    TOKYO (AP) — Usain Bolt went crazy up in a luxury box.

    ...

    September 15, 2025

    #World Athletics Championships
  • At Worlds, Sha’carri and Lyles Feel They Found Something among Those Long-Awaited Cheers in Tokyo

    TOKYO (AP) — America's two big-name sprinters, Sha'Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles, both walked o...

    September 14, 2025

    #World Athletics Championships
  • Athletics-Kenya’s Jepchirchir Wins Marathon Gold in Thrilling Last-Spurt Duel (UPDATE 1)

    TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir edged Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa in a thrilling...

    September 14, 2025

    #World Athletics Championships
  • World Athletics Championships Kick off in Tokyo, Japan’s Hayato Katsuki Earns Bronze in Race Walk (Update 1)

    Katsuki Hayato finished third in Men's 35 Kilometres Race Walk at the World Athletics Championshi...

    September 13, 2025

    #Tokyo #World Athletics Championships
  • Race Walk, Marathon in World Athletics Championships in Tokyo to Start 30 Minutes Earlier to Avoid Heat

    World Athletics and other organizations announced Thursday the start times for the three road eve...

    September 11, 2025

    #Tokyo #World Athletics Championships
  • At 17, Sprinter Gout Gout Is Drawing Comparisons with Usain Bolt before the Track Worlds

    BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Gout Gout will try to catch up again with world champion Noah Lyles, d...

    September 10, 2025

    #World Athletics Championships
  • Japanese Volunteers Who Missed Chance at Tokyo Games Raring to Go as World Athletics Championships Approaches

    For many volunteers of the World Athletics Championships, which opens in Tokyo next week, the eve...

    September 3, 2025

    #Tokyo #World Athletics Championships
  • Fairy-Tale Ending: Japan Rhythmic Gymnastics Team ‘Fairy Japan’ Wins 1st Gold at Worlds

    The “Fairy Japan” women’s rhythmic gymnastics team performs a routine to secure its first gold me...

    August 25, 2025

  • Japan Team Wins Gold Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships

    Japan's team poses with their gold medals after the group all-around final at the 41st FIG Rhythm...

    August 24, 2025

  • Tomokazu Harimoto, Japanese Table Tennis Ace, Knocks off Chinese World Champ for WTT Yokohama Title

    YOKOHAMA — Japanese table tennis ace Tomokazu Harimoto made a strategic choice to abandon one of ...

    August 12, 2025

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …
  • 22

Top Articles in Sports

  • Japan Figure Skating Legend Yuzuru Hanyu Is Proud Disaster Survivor and Gold Medalist, Vows to Continue Support Efforts
  • Milano Cortina 2026: Figure Skaters Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara Pair Win Gold; Dramatic Comeback from 5th Place in SP
  • Milano Cortina 2026: Japanese Gold Medalist Figure Skater Miura Says When Kihara Retires ‘I Retire Too’
  • Milano Cortina 2026: Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara Clinch Japan’s 1st Gold in Pairs Figure Skating, Rebounding from Disappointing Short Program
  • Milano Cortina 2026: Japan’s Mari Fukada Wins Gold in Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle; Japan’s Kokomo Murase in Bronze

JN TOP STORIES

  • Japan’s Budget on Track for Quick Passage, but Ruling Parties to Face Stronger Opposition in Upper House
  • 7 Men Arrested Over Robbery of ¥423 Mil. on Tokyo Street; Members of Gang Groups Among Those Arrested
  • Japan-Based USS Tripoli, Marine Unit to Be Sent to Middle East, U.S. Media Report
  • Hiroshima: Yamato Museum to Reopen on April 23 after Major Renovation
  • North Korea Fires about 10 Missiles toward Sea in Show of Force, Seoul Says
  • Milano Cortina 2026: Japan’s Daichi Oguri Wins Silver in Para Snowboard Banked Slalom
  • ‘Kokuho’ Wins Record 10 Awards at Japan Academy Film Prize; Demon Slayer Film Claims Animation Category

The Japan News / Weekly Edition

Our weekly ePaper presents the most noteworthy recent topics in an exciting, readable fomat.

Read more

    1. The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun
    2. X_en

      eng

    3. X_jp

      jp

    4. Subscription of Newspaper
  • Politics
    Society
    Business
    World
    News Services
    Editorial & Columns
    Sports
    Science & Nature
    Culture
    JN Specialties
    Features
    Video
  • About us
    Membership Terms & Conditions
    Website Policies
    FAQ
    Advertise

© 2026 The Japan News - by The Yomiuri Shimbun