At Tokyo Games, Japan puts crack in China's table tennis great wall
Despite his own retirement, Jun Mizutani believes the future of the Japanese men's game is bright and the country should look optimistically to Paris in 2024.
Japan's men's table tennis team tops South Korea for Olympic bronze
Japan's trio of Jun Mizutani, Koki Niwa and Tomokazu Harimoto clinched bronze in the men's team event on Friday after a 3-1 win over South Korea.
Japan ousted by Germany in table tennis men's team semifinals
Germany will now face much-favored China in the final, while Japan will battle South Korea for bronze on Friday.
Japan downed Sweden 3-1 to advance to the semifinals of the table tennis men's team competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.
Led by veteran Jun Mizutani, Japan got off to a winning start in the table tennis men's team competition on Monday, easing to a 3-0 win over Australia at the Tokyo Games.
Japanese teen table tennis star Tomokazu Harimoto makes surprise Tokyo exit
Regarded as Japan's brightest young talent, third seed Tomokazu Harimoto made an earlier-than-expected exit on his Olympic debut, losing in seven games to Slovenia's Darko Jorgic.
Tomokazu Harimoto aiming to end Chinese table tennis supremacy
Eighteen-year-old world No. 4 Tomokazu Harimoto is hoping to do what many would consider near impossible: end China's 13-year Olympic men's singles table tennis reign by claiming Japan's first gold in the sport. In his Olympic debut, the naturalized Japanese athlete, born to Chinese parents ...
Japanese players swept the singles events at the inaugural World Table Tennis Star Contender tournament in Doha on Saturday, with Mima Ito winning the women's title before 17-year-old prodigy Tomokazu Harimoto claimed the men's crown. With Chinese players staying home because of concerns about the ...
Tomokazu Harimoto, Kasumi Ishikawa lose in first round at ITTF Finals
Harimoto, the 2018 World Tour Grand Finals men's singles champion, and Ishikawa, the 2014 women's singles champion, were named to Japan's Tokyo Olympics team in January.
Japan's table tennis players assemble for first exhibition since pandemic
The T. League hopes the successful event will be a springboard toward the start of its third season in November.
Tomokazu Harimoto and Mima Ito each claimed their first titles of the ITTF World Tour season at the Hungarian Open in Budapest on Sunday. Harimoto, the world No. 5, defeated Yukiya Uda 4-1 in an all-Japanese men's singles final at Budapest Olympic Hall after the ...
Tomokazu Harimoto, Mima Ito headline Japan's 2020 table tennis squad
The Japan Table Tennis Association announced Monday the six players who will represent the Olympic host nation at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The men's team consists of world No. 5 Tomokazu Harimoto, No. 15 Koki Niwa and No. 16 Jun Mizutani, while the women's team ...
