By Kazunori Hirachi / Yomiuri Shimbun Sportswriter While the national teams from the two countries remain rivals on the field, teams in South Korea's soccer league have turned to their Japan counterparts for advice on the business side. Officials from ...

OSAKA – Cerezo Osaka have agreed in principle to transfer terms that will send forward Takumi Minamino to Austrian first-division club Salzburg, a source with the J. League second-division club said Monday. Minamino scored five times in the 2013 season ...

Tokyo-based life insurance firm Meiji-Yasuda has become the title sponsor of the J League after signing one of the biggest sponsorship deals in the history of Japanese domestic sport, reports, www.sportspromedia.com/. The deal entitles the firm to ...

J. League chairman Mitsuru Murai praised the club for turning its season around and pinned Japan's Asian Champions League hopes next year on the former continental champions. “In the 14 matches leading up to the FIFA World Cup break, Gamba Osaka ...

Montedio Yamagata held off JEF United Chiba to win the J. League promotion playoff final 1-0 on Sunday at Ajinomoto Stadium, securing the third and last ticket to J1 for next season. Masato Yamazaki's first-half header proved to be decisive for ...

While the J. League title race has boiled down to three teams — Gamba Osaka, Urawa Reds and Kashima Antlers — it will take a miracle of serious proportions for Gamba to not win the league. The J. League is used to crowning its champions on the final ...

Three-time World Cup midfielder Junichi Inamoto has joined Consadole Sapporo after being released earlier this month by Kawasaki Frontale, the J. League second-division club said on Saturday. “I will give it everything I have got and try and help the ...

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IWATA (Kyodo) -- Goalkeeper and captain Norihiro Yamagishi headed in a stoppage-time winner to send Emperor's Cup finalists Montedio Yamagata into the playoff final for promotion to the J-League first division with a 2-1 victory away to Jubilo Iwata on ...

First-half goals from Takashi Usami and Patric gave J. League and Nabisco Cup champions Gamba an explosive start at Nissan Stadium, before Romero Frank pulled a goal back for second-division Montedio in the 62nd minute. But Usami struck again in the ...