Fans noticed Olympic rookie Ran Takahashi, 19, during a match with Canada on July 26. To anime fans' delight, Takahashi pulled off a move seen in "Haikyuu!!," a popular sports anime. The move turned ...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capcom Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:9697) today announced that as of April 2025 it has extended its official sponsorship deal with the Japan Volleyball Association (President: ...

Let’s start with a quiz: What national sports teams in Japan are shown live on terrestrial television in Japan? Soccer is the easy answer and baseball gets plenty of air time for its international ...

TOKYO, July 24 (Reuters) - Hosts Japan began their men's volleyball campaign with their first victory at the Olympics in 29 years while Iran edged Poland in a five-set epic in their Pool A openers at ...

TOKYO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Overcoming the formidable Dominican Republic in a must-win pool game to qualify for the quarter-finals of women's volleyball is a tall order for Japan but Sarina Koga is ...

In a bid to give its national volleyball team an edge, Japan has enlisted the help of high-tech training robots. According to New Scientist, these bizarre-looking bots are used to mimic the opposing ...

TOKYO When Yoshie Takeshita of Japan goes up to block spikers 40 centimeters (16 inches) taller, she is lifted by an arena full of fans chanting her name and a banner in Japanese telling her, “159 cm ...

Takahiro Hanada, Japanese minister and consul general, led the turnover of sporting equipment on the Japan Volleyball Association (JVA)’s behalf to Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) ...

Japan is certainly fond of its robots so it's perhaps little surprise that the women's national volleyball team has started using them to help improve its game. Engineers designed a team of opponents ...

In his return to Manila, Japanese volleyball star and fan favorite Ran Takahashi says Asian players can work their way around the European and Americans’ advantage in height and power MANILA, ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) got a shot in the arm from the Japan Volleyball Association (JVA) in the country’s bid to strengthen the sport by donating ...