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August 16, 2026
 

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MEGAN RAPINOE

U.S. star Megan Rapinoe reacts after the team's loss against Sweden in the round of 16 at the Women's World Cup in Melbourne on Sunday. Rapinoe is among the U.S. veterans who might have played in the World Cup for the final time.
SOCCER / Women's World cup
Aug 7, 2023
United States¡¯ Women¡¯s World Cup exit signals end of dominant era
This edition of the Women¡¯s World Cup confirmed that the rest of the world has caught up to the Americans.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 9, 2023
U.S. women¡¯s star Megan Rapinoe to retire at end of season
The winger currently has 199 caps over a span of 17 years playing for her country and also won an Olympic gold medal in London in 2012.
Japan Times
SOCCER / Women's World Cup
Jul 8, 2023
FIFA¡¯s biggest Women¡¯s World Cup nearing kickoff
The tournament has undergone a rapid expansion after featuring just 16 teams in Germany in 2011, when Nadeshiko Japan took the crown, and 24 in France in 2019.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 22, 2023
Veteran star Megan Rapinoe to play new role for U.S. in fourth appearance at Women¡¯s World Cup
The 2019 Golden Boot and Golden Ball winner turns 38 next month, making her two decades older than the youngest member of the U.S. squad, 18-year-old forward Alyssa Thompson.
Japan Times
SOCCER / Women's World Cup
Jun 22, 2023
Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan make fourth U.S. World Cup team
The two-time defending champion will be without captain Becky Sauerbrunn, 2023 leading scorer Mallory Swanson and veterans Sam Mewis and Catarina Macario due to injuries.
Japan Times
SPORTS
Sep 21, 2021
Megan Rapinoe and other female athletes back abortion rights
More than 500 athletes and groups argued that abortion rights have helped the growth of women¡¯s sports and expressed concern that future athletes would suffer without those protections.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jun 24, 2021
Megan Rapinoe headlines U.S. women¡¯s soccer roster for Tokyo Olympics
Strikers Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan were among 17 players from the 2019 Women¡¯s World Cup championship team named to the US women¡¯s soccer squad.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 19, 2021
Megan Rapinoe supports athlete protests instead of boycotts
The outspoken U.S. women¡¯s soccer star believes that events such as the Olympics can allow athletes to bring important issues to the forefront.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Authorities urge continued caution after heavy rain in Chiba leaves eight dead
A local resident walks past a 7-Eleven convenience store in a flooded area after heavy rain in the city of Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
Takaichi drops ¡®remorse¡¯ in her first war memorial address
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks onstage during a memorial service ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo on Saturday.
U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China?
People march as they protest against Pax Silica, a U.S.-led initiative, in Manila on Thursday.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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