Vissel Kobe cruised into the Asian Champions League Elite knockout stage on Tuesday after brushing aside Shanghai Port of ...

Japanese champions Vissel Kobe romped into the knockout stages of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday, a 4-0 victory over ...

Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu left Celtic striker Kyogo Furuhashi and Vissel Kobe forward Yuya Osako out of his 26-man squad for the World Cup on Tuesday, saying he had opted for players with ...

But the man who got the goals -- Taisei Miyashiro-- is clearly thriving now that he is not only being deployed centrally but alongside focal point Yuya Osako. In the first half of the campaign ...

Headers in each half from Tolgay Arslan and Hayato Araki gave Sanfrecce Hiroshima a 2-0 win over two-time reigning J-League ...

The 32-year-old former Japan international follows in the footsteps of his Kobe strike partner Yuya Osako, who won last season's MVP award. Kobe clinched the J-League first-division crown in the ...

The core of the squad has remained the same under Yoshida, with former Japan internationals Yuya Osako, Yoshinori Muto, Hotaru Yamaguchi, Gotoku Sakai and Yosuke Ideguchi bringing a level of ...

Kobe grew into the game without testing the opposing goal in an evenly-matched first half, and took the lead after the break when Yuya Osako released Yoshinori Muto down the left and his low cross ...