Rui Hachimura and Yuta Watanabe slam-dunked through the glass ceiling for Japanese basketball players to make it to the NBA.

In the men's professional basketball league (B.League), the championship game to determine Japan's top team was held on May ...

The National Basketball Association is planting a seed to boost its popularity in Japan, a country that has high growth ...

May has never met his new assistant coach Mody Maor, but said he wanted to "hire a coach who’s better than me." ...

Four Japanese basketball players were sent home from the Asian Games in Indonesia after allegedly paying women for sex, leaving just eight players on the Japan roster for the rest of the tournament.

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – It was just a three-minute scrimmage, but when 9-year-old Quentin Sykes sank a buzzer beater to seal his team's 4-0 win, the entire Youth Center here erupted like he’d just clenched ...

Hovasse coached the Japanese women to a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. As the men's basketball coach, he wants Japan to "shock the world" in Paris. TOKYO | Tom Hovasse’s voice vibrated through ...

(Updates with JBA apology) * FIBA says suspension for good of Japanese basketball * JBA to work on getting ban lifted Nov 27 (Reuters) - The Japanese Basketball Association apologised on Thursday ...

The United States women's basketball team are once again Olympic champions. On Saturday night, they used another dominant performance to beat Japan, 90-75, in the gold medal game at the Tokyo Olympics ...