Japan

All of the kits contain cultural references, nods to footballing history, and more allusions to the teams wearing themadidas has unveiled its federation kits for the 2022 World Cup, revealing the away kits for Argentina and Mexico alongside both home and away designs for Germany, Japan and Spain. All of the kits mix two very different…

Major League Baseball says it has opened an official investigation into alleged illegal gambling involving Japanese MLB star Ohtani Shohei and his interpreter, Mizuhara Ippei. In a statement released on Friday, the operator of the top US baseball league said it has been gathering information since it learned…

An over seven-meter-long spear inspired by the animation series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" has been installed in an industrial city in western Japan whose urban environment provided the backdrop for a film adaptation of the series. The replica of the "Spear of Longinus," the giant extraterrestrial weapon that plays a key role…

North Korea said Wednesday that it launched a military reconnaissance satellite the previous day that entered orbit as planned, prompting Japan and the United States to condemn Pyongyang for violating U.N. Security Council resolutions. While North Korea's official media said the satellite launch was successful, Japan, which…

Chinese President Xi Jinping decided himself to let ballistic missiles launched by the military during recent large-scale drills near Taiwan fall in Japan's exclusive economic zone to deter Tokyo's interference in any cross-strait contingency, according to sources close to the matter. Xi, who heads the Central Military…

Here is a selection of Kyodo News photos taken this week in Japan and beyond.   Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito, Crown Princess Kiko and their son Prince Hisahito attend the opening ceremony of the national inter-high school cultural festival in Tokyo on July 31, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo         Performers…

In what might have been his last game in Japanese pro baseball, Orix Buffaloes ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw a complete game Saturday to even the Japan Series at three games apiece in a 5-1 Game 6 win over the Hanshin Tigers and force a Game 7. Yamamoto, who hopes to move to Major League Baseball via the posting system this…

It appears to be the same man from two previous incidents. A video posted on social media appears to show a Caucasian man making racist remarks towards an Asian women at a Richmond Canada Line station. In the video, the man, who claims to be a lawyer, demands to know why the women were not speaking English, making references about Japan,…

A group of officers based at a central Japan police station are expected to be referred to prosecutors over allegations they failed to make adequate medical care available to a detained man who suffered chronic diseases, leading to his death late last year, an investigative source said Tuesday. The case of the 43-year-old…

About 3,500 followers of the Unification Church from across South Korea, mostly Japanese women married to local men, staged a protest in central Seoul on Thursday against what they call biased Japanese media reports about the religious group. The women, who immigrated to South Korea via mass weddings arranged by the…