The basketball team of Japan is operated by the Japan Basketball Association. Japan's national team was founded in the early 1900s when the team started competing on the national level.

The Japan Basketball Association will appoint a liaison to improve communication with overseas-based players in response to the heavy criticism of its operations by men's national team star Rui ...

the team showed enough progress for the 57-year-old American to retain the confidence of the Japan Basketball Association. Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo, Hovasse said he was undecided ...

Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in America.

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 ...

Power forward Rui Hachimura made his return to the Los Angeles Lakers starting lineup Wednesday in a 120-119 win over ...

He is following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Lakers star Rui Hachimura, former Grizzlies forward Yuta Watanabe, and Yuta Tabuse, the pioneering 5-foot-9 point guard who played four games for the ...

After Japan overtook Finland in the final quarter, Kawamura drained three-pointers despite being guarded by forward Lauri Markkanen, an all-star in the National Basketball Association. Kawamura ...

Mayo, a 2015 graduate of Messalonskee, is in his fourth season with the Japan Professional Basketball League’s Hiroshima ...

Two Olympians and a basketball icon will banner the heavy cast of awardees in the 39th Sportswriters Association of Cebu-San Miguel Beer (SAC-SMB) Cebu Sports Awards on April 26 at the Cube Wing of SM ...