The top-tier skaters are well known, but exciting quests are right behind as young athletes aim to earn their own spots on the national team.
The U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada have announced diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics over China’s human rights abuses.
All indications are there: massing troops, controlling strategic resources, creating obligations owed to it by neighbors.
With all of the variables that skaters have had to deal with during the pandemic, it was a respectable start for Kagiyama, the favorite to fill...
The original meaning has become lost, and there is too much emphasis on commercialism and winning at all costs, and excessive nationalism. It has become a...
The third-year pro leads the Japanese professional women's tour with eight victories this season.
Orser and Tracy Wilson will try to refine Kihira’s jump arsenal, which includes a quadruple salchow, so she can compete with the Russians.
The judoka shares his plans for when his term as coach of the Japan men’s judo team ends.
While the local government must wait until after the Paralympics to convert the venues, it has set up 100-plus bed “oxygen stations” for patients at risk...
The Summer Games also exposed various inadequacies in Japanese emergency abilities and distortions in postwar Japanese society.
There were few cheering crowds at the Tokyo Olympics but the praise for Japan in the international media is unprecedented.
The Olympic flame is no longer flickering in the nation’s capital, but so many memories remain vivid and meaningful.