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PARALYMPICS

The planned wheelchair basketball venue for the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games is seen in a digital artist's rendering released on Tuesday.
PARALYMPICS
Jun 4, 2025
LA28 unveils venue plan for largest ever Paralympics
The Paralympics will seek to take advantage of the city's vast network of existing sports venues when it hosts the event for the first time.
Honda will provide a fleet of cars for athletes, officials and stakeholders, along with motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and other multipurpose vehicles during the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 3, 2025
Honda joins 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games as major partner
The carmaker will provide a fleet of cars for athletes, officials and stakeholders, along with motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and other multipurpose vehicles during the event.
Participants experience para powerlifting during an event in Yokohama or March 22.
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Apr 17, 2025
P. United continues mission as para sports groups unite to face shared challenges
P. United remains optimistic about its mission in Year 3.
IPC President Andrew Parsons poses for photos before a news conference at the Milano Cortina 2026 Organising Committee headquarters in Milan, Italy.
PARALYMPICS
Mar 7, 2025
IPC chief tasks sports with setting own rules for transgender athletes
The Olympic Games and the Paralympics currently allow transgender athletes to compete.
Takayuki Suzuki won a gold, two silvers and a bronze medal during the Paris Paralympics.
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Oct 7, 2024
Paralympic star Takayuki Suzuki hopes to raise visibility of people with disabilities
Takayuki Suzuki won four medals, including one gold, during the Paris Paralympics.
The French government and Paris Games organizers had promised to leave a legacy that would help tackle the problem of people spending too much time on screens and doing too little exercise.
OLYMPICS
Oct 2, 2024
Frustrated French clubs turn away players in post-Olympics sports boom
Swimming clubs have registered around 10,000 new members, while table tennis clubs are expecting around 20% more players.
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2024
Toyota ends sponsorship with 'political' Olympics
The withdrawal means Olympics logos currently carried by Toyota products will be phased out, and its vehicles will no longer be provided to assist with the event.
French swimmer Leon Marchand waves to the crowd during a parade featuring Olympians and Paralympians in Paris on Saturday.
OLYMPICS
Sep 15, 2024
France says final farewell to Olympics with parade on Champs-Elysees
Around 70,000 people gathered for the parade, which featured athletes, volunteers and public sector workers.
Kazakhstan's Raushan Koishibayeva competes in the women's para powerlifting up to 73kg gold final on Saturday
PARALYMPICS
Sep 9, 2024
In pictures: Paralympics’ end brings hope for more diversity
Scenes from 11 days of thrilling competition, in which Japan bagged 14 gold medals, 10 silver and 17 bronze.
Fireworks are fired on the Stade de France roof during the closing ceremony of the Paris Paralympics on Sunday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 9, 2024
Paris Paralympics close with festive ceremony as France celebrates 'historic' summer
International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons said the Paris Paralympics had shown that "change starts with sport."
Japan's Tokito Oda (L) reacts after beating Britain's Alfie Hewett in the men's singles gold medal match of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Saturday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 8, 2024
Tokito Oda becomes youngest Paralympic men's wheelchair singles champion
Oda prevailed in just over 2 1/2 hours, in front of a virtually sell-out crowd at Roland Garros, in a great advertisement for the event.
Yui Kamiji celebrates after winning gold in the women's wheelchair tennis singles competition at the Paris Paralympics on Friday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 7, 2024
Japan's Kamiji takes Paralympic gold in wheelchair tennis singles
Kamiji came back to beat longtime rival Diede de Groot of the Netherlands 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Yui Kamiji (left) and Manami Tanaka celebrate after winning gold over Diede De Groot and Aniek Van Koot at the Paris Paralympics on Thursday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 6, 2024
Japanese pair clinch Paralympic gold in wheelchair tennis
Since wheelchair tennis was introduced in the 1992 Paralympics, Dutch women have typically dominated both the singles and doubles events, but not on Thursday in Paris.
Japan players celebrate after the team won the gold-medal match of the Paralympic goalball competition on Thursday in Paris.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 6, 2024
Japan takes Paralympic gold in men's goalball for the first time
Yuto Sano scored the golden goal to give Japan victory against Ukraine by a 4-3 scoreline after extra time in the South Paris Arena.
Great Britain's Sarah Storey competes in the women's road cycling time trial at the Paris Paralympics in Clichy-sous-Bois, France, on Wednesday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 5, 2024
Paralympic fencing star Bebe Vio handed shock defeat as Storey criticizes cycling course
Storey, who is competing in her ninth Paralympics, dominated the C5 time trial in the Paris suburbs, but said the short, 14.1-kilometer course was "appalling."
2024 Paris Paralympics taekwondo bronze medalist Palesha Goverdhan greets the crowd upon her arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Wednesday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 4, 2024
Crowds give Nepal's first Paralympic medalist hero's welcome
Palesha Goverdhan brought the nation its first medal in the Games after returning home with a bronze in taekwondo.
Shunya Takahashi (center) and Nihon Fukushi University professor Toshihito Mitsui (right) during an event in 2019.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 4, 2024
From Koshien to the Paralympics: Javelin thrower realizes dream long in the making
Born in the city of Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Takahashi developed a right arm impairment at the age of 3 due to myelitis and finished sixth in his event in Paris.
Katsuya Hashimoto scored 19 tries for Japan as the team recorded a 48-41 win over the United States to secure the wheelchair rugby gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on Monday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 3, 2024
Japan eases past U.S. for first Paralympic wheelchair rugby gold
Katsuya Hashimoto scored 19 tries for Japan, which had secured bronze in the past two Games.
Gold medalist Sarina Satomi of Japan celebrates after winning her Women's Singles WH1 badminton match against Sujirat Pookkham of Thailand at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on Monday.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 3, 2024
Satomi wins second straight Paralympic badminton gold
Satomi defeated Thailand's Sujirat Pookkham 2-1 in the WH1-class final on the day.
An elevator at the Stade de France commuter train station in Saint-Denis, near Paris, France. Paris built highly accessible accommodation for competitors in the 2024 Paralympic Games, but overall, the city remains difficult to navigate for people with disabilities.
PARALYMPICS
Sep 2, 2024
Paris is utopia for Paralympians until they leave the athletes village
It will be decades before the city's streets, sidewalks and parks achieve even a semblance of the Paralympic Village’s accessibility.
Japan’s fertility rate hits record low despite government push
The total number of births dropped to about 686,000, marking the first time the figure has fallen below 700,000, according to a health ministry release on Wednesday.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Hakuho’s departure highlights worrying sumo trend
Former <i>yokozuna</i> Hakuho performs a ring-entering ceremony at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in February 2020.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
Is Japan ready to say goodbye to tax-free shopping?
Arrows lead to the tax-free counter at a branch of discount retailer Don Quijote in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.
South Korea’s Lee pledges to heal deep wounds as ‘president for everyone’
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung waves with his his wife, Kim Hye-gyeong, following his inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul on Wednesday.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 console is finally here
The Switch 2 is Nintendo's first new gaming console in eight years.
Hakuho’s departure highlights worrying sumo trend
Former <i>yokozuna</i> Hakuho performs a ring-entering ceremony at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in February 2020.
Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima dies at 89
Shigeo Nagashima (left), then the manager of the Tokyo Giants, waves to fans with players and coaches during a victory parade in central Tokyo in 2000. Nagashima died at the age of 89 on Tuesday.
‘A garden is a grand teacher’: The Kamakura Gardener nurtures via YouTube
American Robert Jefferson runs a YouTube channel called The Kamakura Gardener that invites viewers to enjoy the pleasures of gardening, cooking and slow living.

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After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
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