For Shintaro Kano's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Now it's Tokyo's turn. Sunday drew the curtains on a Winter Olympics that opened two weeks ago under the cloud of Russia's doping scandal and saw fears of a norovirus outbreak and freezing weather force changes to the Pyeongchang Games schedule. Not to mention the North ...
With the gold medal he has been waiting for his entire career at stake, Akito Watabe went all in to win the Nordic combined large hill 10-km final. "I was speaking with (coach Takanori Kono) and we were saying that if we want to win ...
Noriaki Kasai is going for No. 9. Kasai, the only eight-time Winter Olympian in history after competing at the Pyeongchang Games at the age of 45, said Monday he has no plans to hang up his skis any time soon and will make a run ...
Noriaki Kasai had a bittersweet Valentine's Day. On Wednesday, teammate Yuki Ito, who finished out of the medals in ninth in the Pyeongchang Olympics women's ski jumping on Monday, gave Kasai a box of chocolates before boarding her flight back to Japan. Kasai's conversation with Ito, ...
Pyeongchang was supposed to be about the joy and excitement of the Olympic Games for Japanese biathlete Mikito Tachizaki. The 29-year-old was poised to share his experience over laughs with his wife Fuyuko, a fellow Self-Defense Forces member and biathlete, competing in her third Olympics ...
World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie cannot rule out the possibility of the Russian doping scandal carrying over to the 2020 Olympics but is counting on Tokyo to help restore the tainted image of the Olympic Games. Just one day from the opening of the ...
When a 19-year-old Noriaki Kasai competed at the Winter Olympics for the first time, Kiichi Miyazawa was Japanese Prime Minister, Bill Clinton was campaigning to become the United States president and Michael Jordan was the NBA's Most Valuable Player. Over the 26 years since the ...
Reigning Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza on Monday did not hold back her joy at becoming world No. 1 in women's tennis. The 23-year-old last week topped the WTA rankings for the first time, becoming the second woman from Spain to achieve the feat, after four-time ...
Tokyo will not benefit long term from hosting the 2020 Olympics — contrary to the hopes and prayers of a nation — sports economist Andrew Zimbalist said Wednesday. "I'd be really surprised," Smith College professor Zimbalist said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, when ...
The 10-second barrier has been unbreakable for Japanese sprinters in the 100 meters, Koji Ito coming the closest in 1998 when he ran it in 10 seconds flat. But Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, the 18-year-old half-Ghanaian prodigy, is giving Japan hope the wall may finally ...
