The 25-year-old from Saitama Prefecture won a total of six breaking matches to top...

Jack Gallagher
Jack Gallagher is an award-winning sports writer who has worked in Japan for 25 years. He has covered figure skating at several Olympics and is considered one of the top skating writers in the world. He is the managing editor of jackfigure.com and the host of the popular bilingual Ice Time Podcast. Gallagher has written about a wide variety of sports in his career. A graduate of the University of Southern California, he was an executive in the NBA and NFL Europe before moving to Japan in 1994.
At the Le Bourget Climbing Venue, the 17-year-old Chiba Prefecture native became the first...
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Miwa Harimoto clinched the victory for Japan over Germany in the table tennis semifinals...
A Russian doping scandal and the appeals process delayed the rewarding of the medals...
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Trailing 25-23 at the halfway point, Japan's fencing squad came on to capture three...
Captain Sarina Koga, in what was likely her final game for the Japan volleyball...