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 ...

The way female fans cheer from the stands, zealously waving uchiwa (paper fans) and signs for their favorite stars, it's easy to mistake a men's volleyball game in Japan for a concert featuring the ...

Volleyball is still a staple of school sports and around 4 million people say they play the sport (compared to 7 million for baseball and 5.3 million for soccer), so it has a strong participation rate ...

Men’s volleyball is flying high in Japan with the national team ranked fourth globally ahead of the Paris Olympics and the sport’s soaring popularity fuelled by a manga blockbuster. Haikyu!!, a tale ...

Japan’s legions of female volleyball fans were left in tears after Japan lost to Italy in the men’s volleyball quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics on Monday. Fans who didn’t make it to Paris were ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) and Japan Volleyball Association (JVA) vowed to continue to strengthen the partnership as they look to raise the profile of ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Volleyball team will be taking an international trip to Japan in May, the program announced Wednesday morning. The trip to Japan follows trips in the past that the UK ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) got a shot in the arm from the Japan Volleyball Association (JVA) in the country’s bid to strengthen the sport by donating ...

Vietnamese volleyball star Tran Thi Thanh Thuy faced a staggering earthquake with her club PFU BlueCats in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 1. A massive earthquake hit five prefectures of Japan: ...