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Hina Hayata (left) and Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan compete in a mixed doubles semifinal during the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships in Houston in November 2021.
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Nov 14, 2023
Harimoto, Hayata to play for Japan in table tennis mixed team event
Japan's governing body had originally decided against taking part in the Mixed Team World Cup in China over the awarding of individual rankings points.
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May 26, 2023
Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata reach mixed doubles final at world championships
Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata advanced to the mixed doubles final at the world table tennis championships with a 3-1 win over China's Lin Shidong and Kuai Man on Thursday.
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Oct 9, 2022
Japan loses to China in women's final at table tennis team worlds
In the men's semifinals, Japan also lost to China, but forced the table tennis superpower to a full five matches in the Chinese city of Chengdu.
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Nov 29, 2021
Japan table tennis pairs move on to world championship finals
Two teams of Japanese paddlers advanced to the finals of the mixed and women's doubles events at the table tennis world championships in Houston on Sunday.
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Aug 7, 2021
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.
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Aug 6, 2021
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.
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Aug 5, 2021
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.
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Aug 3, 2021
Japan reaches men's team table tennis semis in Tokyo
Japan downed Sweden 3-1 to advance to the semifinals of the table tennis men's team competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.
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Aug 2, 2021
Japan off to winning start in table tennis men's team event
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.
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Jul 28, 2021
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.
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Jul 25, 2021
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.
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Mar 14, 2021
Tomokazu Harimoto and Mima Ito claim singles titles in Doha
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.
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Nov 19, 2020
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.
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Sep 15, 2020
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.
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Feb 24, 2020
Tomokazu Harimoto, Mima Ito clinch first titles of season
Tomokazu Harimoto and Mima Ito each claimed their first titles of the ITTF World Tour season at the Hungarian Open in Budapest on Sunday.
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Jan 6, 2020
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.
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Aug 19, 2019
Tomokazu Harimoto wins Bulgaria Open for first title of season
Tomokazu Harimoto defeated China's Zhao Zihao in the men's final of the Bulgaria Open on Sunday, claiming his first title on the ITTF World Tour this season.
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Dec 16, 2018
Tomokazu Harimoto becomes youngest Grand Finals singles champ
Tomokazu Harimoto became table tennis' youngest World Tour Grand Finals singles champion on Sunday with a win over world No. 4 Lin Gaoyuan of China.
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Oct 24, 2018
Ambitious T. League begins play at Ryogoku Kokugikan
With the lofty ambition of eventually becoming the world's best table tennis circuit, the T. League kicked off competition at a lavishly decorated Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Wednesday night.
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Oct 23, 2018
T.League primed to kick off inaugural season
One day before the T.League officially kicks off its inaugural season with a men's match between the Kinoshita Meister Tokyo and T.T Saitama, chairman Koji Matsushita, players and coaches showed their excitement and jitters to be a part of Japan's first professional table tennis circuit.

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