Fans noticed Olympic rookie Ran Takahashi, 19, during a match with Canada on July 26. To anime fans' delight, Takahashi pulled off a move seen in "Haikyuu!!," a popular sports anime. The move turned ...

Ally Batenhorst has shared a sneak peek of her outing with her boyfriend, Cooper Robinson, to Japan. The latter joined the ...

Haikyuu was a genre-defining release of its time, contributing signifcantly to bringing Sports anime/manga to the forefront. Memorable characters, emotion and a well-written plot are just some of the ...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capcom Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:9697) today announced that as of April 2025 it has extended its official sponsorship deal with the Japan Volleyball Association (President: ...

Japan is certainly fond of its robots so it's perhaps little surprise that the women's national volleyball team has started using them to help improve its game. Engineers designed a team of opponents ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Overcoming the formidable Dominican Republic in a must-win pool game to qualify for the quarter-finals of women's volleyball is a tall order for Japan but Sarina Koga is confident ...

BELDANGI II REFUGEE CAMP, Nepal, April 11 (UNHCR) - Three members of Japan's gold-winning women's volleyball team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics recently visited eastern Nepal to share their knowledge ...

As the Kentucky volleyball team prepares to embark on an 11-day tour of Japan, there are a pair of elements from which the Cats can benefit. One, the extra practices and the games against Japanese ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – The U.S. women's volleyball team knows Japan so well that long points are a given. Patience is an absolute must. Against the best defensive team in the world, balls are going to come ...

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In a bid to give its national volleyball team an edge, Japan has enlisted the help of high-tech training robots. According to New Scientist, these bizarre-looking bots are used to mimic the opposing ...