(Adds details quotes) * Yokohama to host 2019 final * Tokyo Stadium to host opening game TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Yokohama Stadium, which staged the 2002 soccer World Cup final, will replace Japan's ...

TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Brief profiles of the 12 stadiums chosen to host matches at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan after Tokyo's planned new National Stadium was replaced by the existing, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Japan’s new-look professional rugby competition will launch next month with bold ambitions to win not only a domestic but a global audience, to attract the world’s best ...

Chile makes its Rugby World Cup debut on Sunday and Japan believes it knows what's coming in Toulouse. “A very gritty side,” Japan defense coach John Mitchell said. “They have showed determination to ...

LONDON (AP) World Rugby performed ''rigid and rigorous tests'' to ensure the originality of the logo used for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, after Tokyo Olympic organizers scrapped their original ...

A new book describes how effects of climate change, like intense flooding from 2019’s Typhoon Hagibis, have changed sports history. The following is an excerpt from Warming Up: How Climate Change Is ...