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SPEEDSKATING 2

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Feb 29, 2020
Miho Takagi, Tatsuya Shinhama lead chase for world sprint titles
Miho Takagi won two races to lead the women's sprint standings at the ISU World Sprint and Allround Speed Skating Championships on Friday, while countryman Tatsuya Shinhama also positioned himself atop the men's standings.
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Feb 15, 2020
Japan sets record in team pursuit
The Japan women's trio, sisters Miho and Nana Takagi and Ayano Sato, won the team pursuit in a world-record time on the opening day of the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships on Friday.
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Feb 9, 2020
Nao Kodaira zooms to victory in women's 500 in Calgary
Nao Kodaira won the women's 500 meters in a speedskating World Cup meet on Saturday, a day after prevailing in the 1,000 for the first time since November 2018.
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Feb 8, 2020
Nao Kodaira claims first 1,000-meter victory since November 2018
Nao Kodaira won the women's 1,000 meters at a speedskating World Cup meet on Friday, claiming her first win in the event since November 2018.
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Dec 15, 2019
Japan wins women's team pursuit at speedskating World Cup in Nagano
Japan's women claimed their first team pursuit victory of the season in front of a home crowd on Sunday, the final day of the ISU World Cup in Nagano.
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Dec 13, 2019
Nao Kodaira wins in Nagano to capture 30th World Cup gold
Nao Kodaira won the women's 500 meters on home soil Friday for her 30th speedskating World Cup gold medal.
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Mar 11, 2019
Miho Takagi achieves world record in 1,500 meters
Miho Takagi ended the 2018-2019 World Cup in style on Sunday, setting a world record on her way to winning the competition's final 1,500-meter race of the season.
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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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Mar 4, 2019
Martina Sablikova overtakes Miho Takagi to win allround speedskating world title
Miho Takagi fell short in her bid for back-to-back titles at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships on Sunday, finishing second behind the Czech Republic's Martina Sablikova.
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Mar 3, 2019
Miho Takagi races to top of leaderboard after first day first day of allround world championships
Defending champion Miho Takagi won the 500-meter race by a wide margin to claim the lead in the women's competition on Saturday, the first day of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships.
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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 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 10, 2018
Miho Takagi races to third gold medal in Poland
Miho Takagi earned her third gold medal of the week Sunday when she led Japan to victory in the women's team sprint at the ISU World Cup in Poland.
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Dec 9, 2018
Miho Takagi claims first 1,500-meter gold of season
Miho Takagi clinched her first gold of the season when she cruised to victory in the 1,500 meters on the third stop of the ISU World Cup circuit on Saturday in Poland.
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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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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 5, 2018
Putting Japan's Olympic success into words
Team Japan amassed 13 medals in Pyeongchang, its best ever Winter Games medal haul.
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Feb 26, 2018
South Korean newspapers praise speedskaters Nao Kodaira and Lee Sang-hwa
Nao Kodaira beat South Korea's Lee Sang-hwa to win the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics women's 500 meter speedskating event.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 24, 2018
Nana Takagi zooms to gold in women's mass start final
Japan's Nana Takagi won the gold medal in the women's mass start final at Gangneung Oval on Saturday night.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 22, 2018
Wu Dajing victorious in men's short-track 500 meters
Wu Dajing clocked a world record on Thursday en route to winning short-track speedskating men's 500 meters for China's first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Human bone-like objects found at Nippon Steel plant’s molten iron pot, with one worker missing
Police believe it’s highly possible that human bones found in a molten iron pot at Nippon Steel's Oita factory belong to a missing male employee.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Man suspected of using smart glasses to cheat on Waseda University exams
The Waseda University campus in Tokyo. An 18-year-old male test-taker is suspected of using smart glasses to cheat during the university's entrance exam.
Japanese rap creates its mecca in Pop Yours
Tokyo-based artist Jumadiba says he forgoes the label of simply “rap” for his music because the Japanese rap scene isn’t confined to a particular sound.
Who’s toughest on China? Biden’s tariff tactic ups ante as election looms.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about new actions to protect American workers and businesses from China's "unfair" trade practices, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
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As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.

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