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.
Sony AI's autonomous robot Ace beat elite table tennis players and made the cover of Nature. From its Gran Turismo Sophy roots to the fast-ball wall that stumped DeepMind and a 20.2-millisecond reaction loop, here's how Sony's robot reached elite-competitive level in a real, physical sport.
Japan-born global group XG will throw the first pitch at Dodger Stadium on May 31. We break down the newly announced seven North American dates of the XG WORLD TOUR: THE CORE — venues, tickets, and the TikTok-and-Billboard fanbase that made an arena tour possible.
Kenshi Yonezu has written 'Karasu' (Crow) as NHK's 2026 World Cup soccer theme. Combined with Ado's 'Kira' (adidas Japan uniform song), ORANGE RANGE's DAZN anthem, and JI BLUE's 'Keshiki' (JFA official theme), Japan's top J-pop artists are forming an unprecedented multi-platform soundtrack for FIFA World Cup 2026.
While the world watches Inoue vs Nakatani and Daigo vs MenaRD, Japan's Golden Week 2026 packs 8 more events into the same eight days—including a single Saturday (May 2) where Tokyo Dome, Ryogoku Kokugikan, and Tokyo Big Sight all run major events at once. From EVO Japan to centuries-old folk festivals, here's what else is happening.
ONE PIECE characters suit up in NBA team jerseys for a landmark crossover. From Luffy in Lakers purple to Enel defending for the Thunder, here's everything you need to know about the collab T-shirts, towels, stickers, posters, and figures, plus how overseas fans might get their hands on them.