Following the ring deaths of Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa last week, authorities in Japan have worked together to make improvements to keep their boxers safer. An emergency meeting took ...

Drastic weight loss, ferocious sparring and lax regulation have created a dangerous environment in Japanese boxing, as the sport battles for its future in the country after two fighters died. Super ...

Riyadh Season and Saudi Arabian boxing among Japanese audiences. Several prominent Japanese boxers -- including Naoya Inoue, Junto Nakatani, Kenshiro Teraji, and Taiga Imanaga -- will compete in ...

Two Japanese boxers, Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa, died after suffering brain injuries while competing on the same card in different fights at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall on Aug. 2. The World ...

TOKYO, Japan -- A Japanese amateur boxer underwent brain surgery two weeks ago and has not regained consciousness, authorities said on Friday, as the sport in the country reels from the deaths of two ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has trained around her work shifts for over a year to prepare for a final Olympic boxing qualifier in the hope of making it to the Tokyo Games this ...

Unless it involves Naoya Inoue, Japanese boxing rarely makes international headlines. Saturday was one of those rare exceptions when the Japanese Boxing Commission confirmed the near-simultaneous ...

TOKYO – Amid respectful scenes in Yokohama between Naoya Inoue and Mexican opponent Luis Nery ahead of their unified super bantamweight title fight on Monday night, promoter Bob Arum was in fine form.