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PARALYMPICS

Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 4, 2021
After Paralympic bronze, Japan women's goalball team aims to grow the sport
The Japan women's goalball team left the Games with bronze medals around their necks and the hope that the noise they made in the silent sport will reverberate across Japan.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 4, 2021
Belgian wheelchair sprinter says he overcame sabotage to win gold medal
Peter Genyn's coach and staffers worked quickly to repair his wheelchair before Friday's race, in which he broke his own Paralympic record.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 4, 2021
In pictures: Day 10 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
In pictures: Day 10 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 4, 2021
Disabled Japanese are often invisible. Will Paralympics bring lasting light?
Tokyo improved its infrastructure before the Games, but activists wonder how long the focus will continue in a country with a long history of excluding people with disabilities.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 3, 2021
Turkey routs U.S. to take gold in goalball
After six dominant performances, it was hard to imagine Turkey's Sevda Altunoluk finding a way to top herself.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 3, 2021
Japan's Keiichi Kimura and Uchu Tomita grab top two podium spots in S11 100-meter butterfly
Kimura broke through for his long-awaited maiden Paralympic gold medal Friday at the Tokyo Games.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 3, 2021
Paralympics paving way to participation, but long path remains ahead
According to Japan Sports Agency data, the percentage of able-bodied adults who exercise at least once a week is 59.9%, compared to 24.9% for adults with physical impairments.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 3, 2021
Keiko Sugiura wins C1-3 cycling road race for second Tokyo gold
The 50-year-old added the road race gold to the one she won in the time trial at the same venue on Tuesday.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 3, 2021
In pictures: Day 9 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
In pictures: Day 9 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 2, 2021
Afghan Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi makes debut after top-secret evacuation
The 22-year-old and her compatriot Hossain Rasouli arrived in Tokyo on Saturday via Paris after Khudadadi made a video appeal for help to leave Kabul after the Taliban swept to power.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 2, 2021
Japan's Shingo Kunieda and Yui Kamiji each reach wheelchair tennis finals
Kunieda, a two-time singles gold medalist and the top seed, defeated Britain's fifth-seeded Gordon Reid 6-3, 6-2 at Ariake Tennis Park.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 2, 2021
Turkey closes the door on Japan's gold medal hopes in women's goalball with an 8-5 win
Japan will face the loser of the other semifinal for bronze on Friday.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 2, 2021
Why Markus Rehm was slightly disappointed with his gold medal-winning jump
Rehm has won three straight long jump gold medals and owns a world record that would have given him gold in the last seven Olympic Games. But he's still looking to push things forward.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 2, 2021
On TikTok, Paralympic swim champ Anastasia Pagonis raises awareness about blindness
Her videos range from explaining how she sends text messages to how she avoids head-butting the wall at the end of the pool.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 2, 2021
Foreign Paralympian becomes first Tokyo Games athlete to be hospitalized with COVID-19
Masanori Takaya, spokesman for the committee, told a press briefing the athlete, who was hospitalized Tuesday night, is not in a 'serious condition.'
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 2, 2021
In pictures: Day 8 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
In pictures: Day 8 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS
Sep 2, 2021
German 'Blade Jumper' Markus Rehm soars to third straight Paralympic gold
'Winning the third gold medal, I think it's something really special and it's a beauty,' Rehm said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2021
Australia offers visas as Afghan Paralympians contemplate next steps
The pair arrived in Tokyo on Saturday after a global operation successfully evacuated them from Kabul.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Sep 1, 2021
Hidetaka Sugimura wins individual BC2 boccia Paralympic gold
Sugimura, 39, is the first Japanese to reach the podium in an individual boccia event at the Paralympics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 1, 2021
Tiny Hokkaido furniture firm proud creator of Olympic medal cases
Despite many challenges, a company with only 19 employees produced around 4,400 examples of 'made-in-Japan' craftsmanship.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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