{"id":876985,"date":"2026-08-30T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876985\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:52:12","slug":"japan-on-nfls-radar-as-league-targets-more-global-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876985\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan on NFL\u2019s radar as league targets more global expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London \u2013 The NFL plans to expand into new international markets, including Japan, as it seeks to build on growing interest outside the United States, the league\u2019s head of Europe and Asia-Pacific Brett Gosper said. The league\u2019s 2026 regular season, which begins on Sept. 10, will feature a record nine international games across seven countries, up from seven the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJapan is a market of interest at the moment,\u201d Gosper said.\u00a0\u201cThere is a good following, good participation in that market as well &#8230; and a lot of sporting fans and an affinity with American sports like baseball and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former CEO of World Rugby, however, did allude to a potential limitation with scoring a touchdown in some Asian markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London \u2013 The NFL plans to expand into new international markets, including Japan, as it seeks to build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82,178,41147],"class_list":["post-876985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-japan-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}