In an ambitious move towards solidifying its national football team, Japan is eyeing hybrid goalkeeper Rei Nagata for naturalization. With the 2026 World Cup on the horizon, Coach Hajime Moriyasu has ...

There are plenty of young faces representing their nation at the 2025 IIHF World Championships in Czechia. More than two dozen players born in 2006 or later will suit up.

In a world obsessed with aesthetic perfection, wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that celebrates the beauty of the ...

KUMAMOTO — Kumamoto Prefecture’s mascot Kumamon celebrated the 15th anniversary of his 2010 debut in March. Kumamon is one of Japan’s most beloved characters for regional promotion. The prefecture is ...

An RAF veteran who was among the first British personnel to witness a flattened Hiroshima following its atomic bombing by the US in World War Two has died aged 102. Doctors did not expect Roy Daines, ...

Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle opens up about the realities of parenting a pre-teen and how losing bandmate Sarah Harding to breast cancer in 2021 changed her life perspective ...