Japan

The national football federations of Japan and Iran have entered into a partnership agreement that will focus on the development of women’s football in the latter country, along with its ambitions to host the 2019 Asian Cup - the Asian Football Confederation's premier national team tournament.

Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe has defended his proposal to relocate competition venues for the Japanese city’s staging of the 2020 Olympic Games as part of a cost-cutting measure.

Bids from Japan and Singapore will compete to land the final expansion slot for Super Rugby, according to the club competition’s governing body Sanzar.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has urged Tokyo 2020 to avoid unnecessary construction in its preparations for the Olympic Games and has welcomed talk of adjusting venue plans.

The Tokyo 2020 organising committee has appointed Japanese Olympic hammer thrower Koji Murofushi as its new sports director ahead of the country’s staging of the summer Olympic and Paralympics Games.

International Rugby Board chief executive Brett Gosper has admitted that the governing body would like a Japanese team to join the Super Rugby club rugby union tournament.

Major League Baseball (MLB) is set to tour Japan for the first time in eight years after the announcement of an All-Star Series featuring leading players from the North American league against the Japanese national team.

This third annual survey of global sports media consumption by Perform, KantarSport and TV Sports Markets takes our research wider and deeper than before. Wider, because the number of territories covered has increased from 10 to 14, with the inclusion this year of important growth markets such as India, Indonesia, Japan and Turkey. Deeper, because we have asked questions designed to burrow down into new areas, such as consumers’ second-screen activities, that have not been properly examined until now.

Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have revealed they are reviewing their venue plans amid concerns about cost.

Tokyo 2020 has announced that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will lead a new body designed to drive engagement around the city’s staging of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Promised in Japan’s bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, how far are we from recreating sports events virtually throughout stadia across the world using holograms? Elisha Chauhan finds out.

The Japan Sport Council (JSC) has given the go-ahead for the construction of Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium for the city’s hosting of the summer Games in 2020.

The Japanese government has suggested that increasing the number of professional baseball teams in the country from 12 to 16 could boost the national economy.

The ownership group of English Premier League champion Manchester City has expanded its global footprint by agreeing a deal to acquire a minority stake in Japanese J-League football club Yokohama F. Marinos.

John Coates, chairman of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission, has praised Tokyo’s early preparations for the 2020 summer Olympic Games.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has announced the composition of the IOC commissions for 2014, with Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games figurehead Tsunekazu Takeda set to lead the high-profile marketing commission.