Following a rocky start to his B-League career with the Chiba Jets, national team star Yuta Watanabe is determined to get on ...

Watanabe said the rift started after the World Cup in the summer of 2023 in Okinawa, a tournament Hachimura skipped to concentrate on preparing for the 2023-2024 NBA season with the Los Angeles ...

An injury-plagued Yuta Watanabe, the only National Basketball Association player in the national squad, said before the World Cup started that he would retire from the national team if Japan ...

TOKYO — Japan's Morinari Watanabe is a rank outsider to become International Olympic Committee president but he hopes his "crazy idea" to host the Games in five cities at once can spark debate.

Rui Hachimura and Yuta Watanabe slam-dunked through the glass ceiling for Japanese basketball players to make it to the NBA. Now, they have inspired a succession of young Japanese hoopsters to ...

Japan's Morinari Watanabe is a rank outsider to become International Olympic Committee president but he hopes his "crazy idea" to host the Games in five cities at once can spark debate.