Comedian Shizuyo Yamasaki continues to fight despite her failed attempt to compete in the women’s boxing competition at the 2012 London Olympics. The 34-year-old Yamasaki, better known as “Shizu-chan,” was among 16 fighters at the first Challenge Match competition held in Japan for nonprofessional ...

Veteran alpinist Yuichiro Miura has set his sights on a target no one has ever achieved — reaching the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 80. “It may be that I can surpass some human limits,” Miura said when he announced the ...

An Irish-born veterinarian has achieved a lot of “firsts and onlys” in Japan, including becoming the first non-Japanese breeder of a horse to win the Japanese Derby, or Tokyo Yushun, one of the jewels in Japan’s Triple Crown. But as the 51-year-old Harry Sweeney ...