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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Hosts Japan began their men’s volleyball campaign with their first victory at the Olympics in 29 years while Iran edged Poland in a five-set epic in their Pool A openers at an empty ...

BELDANGI II REFUGEE CAMP, Nepal, April 11 (UNHCR) - Three members of Japan's gold-winning women's volleyball team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics recently visited eastern Nepal to share their knowledge ...

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 ...

The Alas Pilipinas girls team impressed by putting up a gallant stand against defending champion Japan in a 17-25, 25-21, 16-25, 20-25 loss ...

Haikyuu's manga may have finished last year, but the franchise made a surprise appearance during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The series, which was written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate, follows ...

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TOKYO, Aug 1 (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 ...

In a bid to give its national volleyball team an edge, Japan has enlisted the help of high-tech training robots. According to New Scientist, these bizarre-looking bots are used to mimic the opposing ...