Captain Tsubasa: Rising Sun FINALS is back after about four months. Creator Yoichi Takahashi also owns the real Nankatsu SC, which finished third and has one October tournament left to keep its JFL hopes alive.
Bridgestone left F1 in 2010 and lost a bid to return in 2023. From December it supplies every Formula E car, on tyres it says are 65% recycled and renewable, a figure that partly relies on mass-balance accounting.
Mizuno's Hyperwarp 96 weighs about 96 grams (size 27.0 cm) despite a thick sole and carbon plate. We compare it with Adidas's 97-gram Evo 3 and ask what one gram, and a 100 km lifespan, really mean.
A Czech team pooled five studies on what competitive gaming does to the body. Energy use barely moves, 1.3 to 2.5 kcal a minute, while heart rate can jump from 85 to 137 bpm. In Japan, the argument is about the word.
Japan's first Formula E night race had Nissan racing as a works team and Yamaha building the powertrain inside another team's car. Those roles are converging.
The IOC's Future Host Commission says it wants the Winter Games back in Japan, and bid movements are stirring in Sapporo and Nagano. But at home the mood is cold. A look at the cost, the corruption memories, and the climate math that keeps pointing to Sapporo.
We converted all 32 World Cup 2026 knockout teams into Dragon Ball power levels, One Piece bounties, Pokemon base stats and Forbes billionaires, using each team's pre-tournament FIFA ranking. Here is the full Round of 32 bracket and its most absurd matchups.
At a Tokyo kids' sports event, Olympic sprinter Shingo Suetsugu graded Ichiro's running across ten categories and landed on 59 out of 100, one point shy of passing. The baseball legend turned his latest near-miss into a perfectly on-brand joke.
Sony Pictures is investing $100M in Cosm, the Sphere-like immersive dome where Dodgers fans watched the World Series as if standing on the field. Here's the deal, the tech, and why Japanese baseball fans already know the place.
The most-used referee whistle at the World Cup comes from Molten in Hiroshima. The story of how the Valkeen was built to cut through 100,000 fans and vuvuzelas, and the surprising company behind it.
BBS supplied wheels to every F1 car for four seasons, all forged in Takaoka, Japan. Inside the Meister system and a different answer to the craftsman-versus-robot question.