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March 2024

  • Fans wearing red wave a big North Korean flag

    North Korea cancels World Cup qualifier against Japan

  • A group of Japanese fans in fancy dress at a World Cup game

    Japan v North Korea World Cup qualifier resumes rivalry that extends beyond football

February 2024

  • Iran’s players celebrate wildly at the final whistle as they end a 19-year wait for a victory over Japan

    Iran’s injury-time penalty dumps Japan out of Asian Cup and seals famous win

    Iran knocked out the four-time champions Japan 2-1 with a dramatic injury-time penalty from their captain, Alireza Jahanbakhsh

January 2024

  • Ayase Ueda celebrates after scoring Japan’s third goal against Bahrain in the last 16 of the Asia Cup.

    Asian Cup: Japan cruise past Bahrain while Iran beat Syria on penalties

  • Syria's Omar Khribin, centre, celebrates after scoring against India.

    Asian Cup drama ready to ramp up in last 16 after wild, emotional groups

  • Ayase Ueda celebrates after scoring Japan’s second goal in the 3-1 victory over Indonesia.

    Japan bounce back with victory to join Iraq in last 16 of Asian Cup

  • Iraq's Aymen Hussein celebrates

    Asian Cup roundup: Aymen Hussein stuns Japan as Iraq qualify for last 16

  • Asian Cup: Iran show solidarity with Palestine before comfortable win

  • Asian Cup preview: Son dreams of glory but Japan look team to beat

  • Liverpool’s Wataru Endo admits mixed feelings over Asian Cup departure

September 2023

  • Lee Kang-in of South Korea

    Lee Kang-in targets a prize greater than glory in the Asian Games

  • Robin Gosens reacts after Takuma Asano scores Japan’s third goal of the night in Wolfsburg.

    Germany beaten 4-1 by Japan in friendly to deepen crisis for Euro 2024 hosts

December 2022

  • A composite of the best photos of the 2022 World Cup

    The World Cup, game by game: remarkable photos from Qatar 2022

  • Left to right: Japan’s Ritsu Doan, Azzedine Ounahi of Morocco, and Saudi Arabia’s Saud Abdulhamid.

    On the rise: seven of the World Cup’s biggest breakout stars

  • Brazil's Vinicius Junior, Danilo and Neymar dance with Lucas Paqueta, right, after he scored his side's fourth goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Brazil and South Korea, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

    Football Weekly
    Brazil find their samba to strut into World Cup last eight – Football Daily podcast

  • Dominik Livakovic celebrates with Luka Modric (right)

    Croatia’s Zlatko Dalic promises his side will ‘not surrender’ in quarter-final

  • Sportblog
    Croatia showed once again that they are the masters of walking football

  • Croatia beat Japan on penalties to reach World Cup quarter-finals – as it happened

  • Croatia knock Japan out of World Cup after Livakovic’s heroics in shootout

  • Japan’s Samurai Blue ready to enter the fray once more against Croatia

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