The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Samurai Blue once felt inferior to the Socceroos, but a 60-team J League has created such depth that Australia enter the World Cup qualifier as underdogs

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Joe Gauci was picked ahead of captain Mat Ryan to start against China but is adamant his spot isn't locked in ahead of the blockbuster clash with Japan.

Socceroos defender Harry Souttar is finally back playing club football again and Australia should benefit from his match sharpness ahead of facing Japan.

Tony Popovic turned to a back three against China with success, and his defenders will be happy to implement that again when they face Japan.

The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors

Yoshinobu Yamamoto outdueled Yu Darvish in a historic playoff matchup of Japanese-born starters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers got home runs from Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández to beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 and advance to the National League Championship Series

Super Formula has cancelled next season’s planned visit to South Korea’s Inje Speedium, and will instead race entirely within Japan in 2025.

Mitch Duke says the Socceroos are ignoring their record in Japan while Lewis Miller says his team have a point to prove after their struggles earlier this year.

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An 88-year-old Japanese man who had fought to overturn a murder conviction for decades has finally been acquitted. Iwao Hakamata was arrested in 1966 and spent 46 years on death row. In a landmark retrial, a court declared him innocent in late September, and while rejecting the verdict, the prosecution…