LaLiga, the Japan Women’s Empowerment Professional Football League (WE League) and the Japan Women’s Football League (Nadeshiko League) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing the ...

The WE (Women Empowerment) League, the first professional league for women’s football in Japan, was established in 2021 by revamping the then Japan Women’s Football (Nadeshiko) League. At the time of ...

Japan and Spain have clinched a berth in the knockout phase with a game to spare after chalking up consecutive victories in Group C at the FIFA Women’s World Cup™. While this was no great surprise ...

(CNN) — Four months before the 2011 Women’s World Cup final, Japan was devastated by the largest earthquake ever recorded in the country’s history. The earthquake triggered a tsunami causing a nuclear ...

The woman leading Japan’s ambitious effort to launch a professional women’s soccer league lives some 6,700 miles away from where the players will ultimately take the field. Kikuko Okajima of Baltimore ...

Futoshi Ikeda's side have already stunned Spain and knocked out Norway in New Zealand. How far can they go? “The strongest team I have ever seen.” That’s how Caroline Graham Hansen, a two-time ...

Japan’s soccer federation has announced a new professional women’s league that will begin play next year. Called the WE League, for women’s empowerment, the new organization will initially consist of ...

Japan’s soccer federation has announced a new professional women’s league that will begin play next year. Called the WE League, for women’s empowerment, the new organization will initially consist of ...