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KODAIRA

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Mar 16, 2019
Nao Kodaira zooms to 500-meter victory in Calgary
Nao Kodaira won the women's 500 meters Friday at the Olympic Oval Finale in Canada but fell short in her pursuit of a new world record.
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Mar 10, 2019
Japanese speedskaters set national marks in long track competition
Nao Kodaira, Miho Takagi and Tatsuya Shinhama all set national records on the first day of the ISU long track World Cup speed skating finals on Saturday.
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Feb 25, 2019
Nao Kodaira defends lead to capture world title
Nao Kodaira claimed the women's overall title for the first time in two years at the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Heereveen on Sunday.
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Feb 24, 2019
Nao Kodaira sprints to top of standings at worlds
Nao Kodaira won the first 500-meter race and finished fourth in the 1,000 to position herself at the top of the women's standings at the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships on Saturday.
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Feb 9, 2019
Nao Kodaira's 37-race unbeaten streak at 500 meters ends
Olympic champion Nao Kodaira's two-year undefeated run in the 500-meter race came to an end Friday when she finished second at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships.
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Feb 3, 2019
Nao Kodaira wins 37th straight 500-meter race
Olympic champion Nao Kodaira won the first of two women's 500-meter races at a World Cup round in Norway on Saturday to continue her two-year undefeated run over the distance.
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Dec 30, 2018
Nao Kodaira wins sixth national sprint championship title
Nao Kodaira won her sixth national sprint championship on Sunday, beating Miho Takagi by a narrow margin.
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Dec 27, 2018
Nasa Hataoka's rise to stardom big story of season for Japanese golf
Nasa Hataoka had a major breakthrough year with two victories on the LPGA Tour in 2018, Hideki Matsuyama's frustrating season saw the former world No. 2 sliding down the men's rankings.
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Dec 16, 2018
Nao Kodaira pushes 500-meter win streak to 34
Nao Kodaira extended her winning streak to 34 straight races with a gold-medal 500-meter sprint performance at a World Cup event in the Netherlands on Saturday.
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Nov 25, 2018
Nao Kodaira wins World Cup gold in women's 1,000 meters
Nao Kodaira won all three individual events she entered in this weekend's speed skating World Cup meet in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, closing with a gold in the women's 1,000 meters on Sunday.
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Nov 24, 2018
Speedskaters Tatsuya Shinhama, Nao Kodaira post victories at World Cup meet
Tatsuya Shinhama won his second straight men's 500-meter World Cup race on Saturday, while countrywoman Nao Kodaira topped the podium in the women's race to extend her winning streak in the distance to 33 races.
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Nov 23, 2018
Nao Kodaira claims 32nd consecutive victory in 500-meter races
Nao Kodaira won her 32nd straight women's 500-meter race on Friday, while Tatsuya Shinhama won his first speedskating World Cup competition over the same distance as Japan won three gold medals on Friday.
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Nov 18, 2018
Miho Takagi earns silver ahead of Nao Kodaira in 1,000-meter race
Miho Takagi and Nao Kodaira claimed silver and bronze, respectively, on Sunday in the women's 1,000-meter race won by Austria's Vanessa Herzog at the season-opening event of the ISU speedskating World Cup.
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Nov 17, 2018
Nao Kodaira cruises to another World Cup victory over 500 meters
Nao Kodaira kept her long-running win streak over 500 meters alive Saturday by claiming gold at a World Cup event on home ice.
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Nov 16, 2018
Nao Kodaira claims 30th straight victory in 500-meter races
Nao Kodaira opened her World Cup season with another 500-meter victory on Friday, while her compatriots captured their eighth straight World Cup women's team pursuit win.
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Oct 26, 2018
Nao Kodaira claims ninth national 500 meters title
Pyeongchang Olympic gold medalist Nao Kodaira won her ninth National Single Distance Championships title in the women's 500 meters on Friday.
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Oct 19, 2018
Olympic champ Nao Kodaira triumphs in first 500-meter race of season
Nao Kodaira opened the new season on a strong note Friday, topping the podium in the women's 500 meters at the Japan Cup.
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Jun 12, 2018
Rikuya Hoshino earns U.S. Open spot as late entry
Rikuya Hoshino was among the late additions to the U.S. Open field, organizers said Monday.
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Mar 8, 2018
Nao Kodaira to skip last World Cup event of season
Nao Kodaira will miss the final speedskating World Cup of the season due to poor physical health, the Japan Skating Federation announced Thursday.
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Mar 5, 2018
Putting Japan's Olympic success into words
Team Japan amassed 13 medals in Pyeongchang, its best ever Winter Games medal haul.
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
The National Police Agency coined the term "tokuryū" to classify individuals involved in dark part time jobs and quasi-gangsters, using the words "tokumei" (anonymous) and "ryūdo" (fluid) to reflect their characteristics.
Thanks, tourists. Views of Mount Fuji are now blocked.
Tourists pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on Friday in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture. Local residents are upset over littering, overcrowding and the inconvenience caused by the visitors.
Is Modi’s party heading for a stunning election loss?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign tactics have escalated, including anti-Muslim rhetoric and fearmongering, reflecting his ruling party's desperation.
Two more arrested over brutal murder of couple in Tochigi
A vehicle carrying Seiha Sekine, the 32-year-old common-law husband of the deceased Tokyo couple's first daughter, leaves a police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Tuesday.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Xi bristles as Macron and von der Leyen urge China to do more on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen walk after their meeting in Paris on Monday.
How a Japanese scientist is turning the climate crisis into music
A screencap of a performance of Hiroto Nagai's “String Quartet No. 1 ‘Polar Energy Budget’” by the PRT Quartet
Japan’s tween skateboarders get head start on preparations for 2028 Olympics
Ibuki Matsumoto competes at an event in Osaka on April 21.

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