As Japan’s men’s basketball team attempts to rebound from some losses at the Paris Olympics, one player’s presence on the team has generated some buzz among surprised fans. Josh Hawkinson, a U.S.-born ...

Shohei Ohtani’s wife, Mamiko Tanaka, is a Japanese former basketball player who rose to fame following her marriage to the ...

Gonzaga men’s basketball standout and current Los Angeles Lakers forward Rui Hachimura is the face of a Japanese men’s basketball national team making back-to-back appearances in the Olympic Games for ...

Keisei Tominaga is headed back to the Olympics. The Japanese National Team announced its 12-man roster for the upcoming Paris Olympics Monday. Former Husker Tominaga is on the team for the first time ...

Japan has now lost all three of its games in the opening stages of the Olympics. They fell to Brazil 102-84 on Friday. This was Brazil's first win of the tournament. Neither team is likely to make it ...

OKINAWA, JAPAN - AUGUST 31: Yuta Watanabe #12 of Japan celebrates the victory after the FIBA Basketball World Cup Classification 17-32 Group O game between Japan and Venezuela at Okinawa Arena on ...

Plans for the start of the Basketball World Cup in Okinawa, Japan, were unaffected Thursday after a North Korean rocket launch prompted an alert ordering some residents to evacuate. Press conferences ...

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — The Paris Olympics are over early for Japan’s Rui Hachimura. Japan’s basketball federation said in a statement Friday morning that Hachimura will sit out its game ...

One Japanese women’s basketball fan tried to troll the US women’s national team over the decision to leave Caitlin Clark off the roster for this year’s Olympics in Paris. The spectator, who was ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan — U.S. Army Japan’s headquarters recently hosted its own version of March Madness as American and Japanese junior high school players faced off for the first time on this base just ...

The U.S. women's national basketball team and Japan play on Monday, July 29 in Lille, France in their first game of the Olympic group phase. Which team will win the basketball game? Check out these ...