After an upset loss to Team USA in its opening match and a brief scare from East Germany, the Soviet Union cruised to a successful defense of its Olympic title in men's volleyball. The Americans wound ...

Japan has qualified for the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics finishing atop Group G at the Olympic Games Qualification tournament ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Volleyball Association's search ... would be the first foreign head coach for the team, which has won six Olympic medals including two golds, in 1964 in Tokyo and ...

Japan, the second-ranked team in the world, faced off against 11th-ranked Germany to get the tournament started in Pool B. In an eye-popping upset to begin the men’s volleyball slate at the Paris ...

Japan's glory days in volleyball date back more than half a century. The women's team, the "Oriental Witches", famously defeated the Soviet Union to win gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics ...

hype is real, and it’s making plenty of anime fans interested in the Olympics. Life imitates art, after all. We’ll see just how far the Japan Men’s Volleyball Team makes it, but one thing ...

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 ...

PARIS--Japan won the Olympic men's foil team title for the first time, beating Italy in a thrilling bout at the Paris Games on Sunday, while France took the bronze to break the country's Olympic ...