A moment from the World Baseball Classic (WBC) second-round game is drawing attention. It was the moment Venezuela captain Salvador Pérez looked toward the Japan bench. But Shohei Ohtani, who was on ...

Japan head coach Jamie Joseph on Thursday named his starting 15 to face the All Blacks at Tokyo's National Stadium at the weekend and said he has selected an experienced bench to give his side some ...

TOKYO, March 27 (Reuters) - Vahid Halilhodzic began his reign as Japan coach with a solid 2-0 win over Tunisia in a friendly in Oita on Friday after calling on the Samurai Blue mainstays in the second ...

Ireland opened their Autumn Series with a 41 to 10 victory over Japan, but the final score masked a performance full of structural cracks. For 50 minutes, Ireland laboured rather than controlled, ...