Miu Hirano completed a remarkable run at the Asian table tennis championships on Saturday, winning the women's singles title after defeating the world's top two players on their home turf. The 17-year-old Hirano silenced the home crowd in the final, beating world No. 5 Cheng Ming in straight games 11-9, 11-8, ...
The new National Stadium being built for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be used exclusively for team ball sports like ...
The final of the men's soccer final at the 2020 Tokyo Games could be moved from the new national stadium, ...
Yoshiro Mori, head of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, said Wednesday a panel to compile the concept of the games' opening ceremony will be set up shortly. In an interview in Tokyo with Kyodo News, Mori also said the route for the ...
Five-time Olympic gold medalist Wu Minxia, China's most successful female diver, announced her retirement on Thursday due to her "physical condition." "Now, though reluctantly, it's time to leave," the 31-year-old said on her official Weibo account. "The story of Chinese diving didn't start with me and ...
Double Olympic medalist Natsumi Hoshi, who won the bronze in the women's 200-meter butterfly at the 2012 London Games and the Rio Olympics in August, said Tuesday she is retiring from competition. "The biggest (reason for retirement) is that I gave my all at the ...
Double Olympic medalist Ai Fukuhara on Wednesday announced her marriage to fellow table tennis Olympian Chiang Hung-chieh, who is Taiwanese. "He's always there to listen and gives me his undivided attention no matter what state I'm in," said Fukuhara, 27, who appeared at a news ...
The government said Tuesday it will bestow the People's Honor Award on Kaori Icho who became the first female wrestler to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals at last month's Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. "Her accomplishments have moved many people deeply and given ...
Japan's hopes of reaching its stated target of 40 medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics appear to be fading after another disappointing day on Saturday that saw just one medal, a bronze, won by defending champion Kento Masaki in judo. Japan's third judo bronze raises ...
The director of the Japanese portion of the Rio Olympic closing ceremony said Friday that Mario, the video game character that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe played in the event, was initially planned for a distinguished Japanese athlete. Hiroshi Sasaki said he intended to choose someone ...
Three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida will double as a coach for the Japanese national women's wrestling team in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Games, a wrestling source said Friday. Yoshida, who fell short of a four-peat at the Rio Olympics as she settled for ...
Led by the gold medal-winning feat of the world's No. 1-ranked female doubles pair, Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo, the Japan badminton squad achieved real success in last month's Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and it's helped boost the popularity of the sport here. Overall, ...
Being blind is nobody's choice, but for Japanese swimmer Keiichi Kimura the decision to break into the world of competitive swimming — and go one further by aiming for gold at the Paralympics — was entirely his. Going to the Rio Paralympics, which starts Wednesday ...
Kazumi Nakayama had always been an athlete, but the disability she developed later in life made her a more determined one and opened the doors to a world she had never imagined. Nine years after a critical injury to her spine left her legs paralyzed, ...
Three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida expressed her desire to make another appearance in freestyle wrestling in four years when the Olympics come to Japan. Yoshida, who succumbed to American Helen Maroulis in a shock women's freestyle 53-kg final defeat, missed the chance to join ...
