Japan

Football
Media

Japanese streaming platform Abema has acquired rights in Japan to the German Bundesliga in a deal covering the remainder of the 2022-23 season
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

Yasuo Mori, a senior official within the Organising Committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is one of four executives who have been arrested as part of an ongoing probe by Japanese prosecutors…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Belgian Pro League club Sint-Truidense VV has agreed a deal for wasabi producer Daio to take on naming rights to its home stadium, Stayen
Multiple Sports
Media

Japanese public service broadcaster NHK is merging two of its linear satellite channels this November as part of cost-cutting measures that have also seen a pullback in spending on sports rights
Baseball
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Japanese arm of Chinese electronics manufacturer Hisense has agreed a sleeve sponsorship deal with Nippon Professional Baseball team Yokohama DeNa BayStars for the 2023 season
Football
Media

Japanese digital media company CyberAgent reported a rare quarterly loss in its 2023 Q1 financial results, caused by the costly acquisition of 2022 Fifa World Cup rights by its streaming platform Abema
Baseball
Media

Amazon Prime Video and J Sports have acquired media rights in Japan for the upcoming World Baseball Classic national team competition
Multiple Sports
Media

Sports streaming service DAZN will be offered as an add-on subscription channel on Amazon's Prime Video service around the world under a new distribution deal between the two companies
Skateboarding
Events

Rakuten Sports has announced the launch of Uprising Tokyo, a new international skateboarding event in the Japanese capital
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

Japan's revamped rugby union league, Rugby League One, has reported revenue of 3.3bn yen ($25m/€23m) and a surplus of 270m yen ($2m/€1.9m) in its first financial year. Sponsorship revenue generated 2.1bn
Golf
Sponsorship & Marketing

Taiga Semikawa, who finished his amateur career as the No.1 ranked amateur golfer in the world, has signed with the Sportfive agency for management and marketing representation as he turns professional
Olympic Games
Events

A report by Japan’s audit board has revealed that the cost of staging last year’s Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games has jumped to ¥1.7tn (€12.2bn/$12.9bn) – around 20 per cent more than the ¥1.423.8tn annou
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

Hironori Aoki, founder of Aoki Holdings, along with two other former executives today (Thursday) pleaded guilty to bribing a former member of the organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as…
Basketball
Finance & Law

American-Australian investment company Crest Sports and Entertainment will be the lead investor in a new $40m (€38m) Series C fundraising round by nascent Asian basketball league the East Asia Super L…
Olympic Games
Events

The ongoing corruption scandal surrounding the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has prompted the city of Sapporo and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) to pause promotion of their bid to host the 2030 Winter Games
Olympic Games
Events

Naomichi Suzuki, governor of Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture, has admitted that the ongoing corruption scandal surrounding the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has had a negative impact on Sapporo’s bid to host the 203…
Football
Governance

Japanese football's J.League 1 is reported to be set to increase from 18 to 20 clubs, as part of major changes being considered to strengthen the top division
Horse Racing
Media

Horse racing organisation the Japan Racing Association (JRA) has announced it will begin providing a live streaming service for all races under its jurisdiction