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 ...

There’s an outdoor volleyball tournament scheduled for this coming August in the town of Gujo. But while playing the sport ...

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 ...

Recapping the most essential highlights from Olympic Volleyball history, from the event's origin and timeline to all the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...