The 71-year-old Canadian is already making his mark on Japan's senior and junior ice hockey squads in his first few months supervising both teams.
At its core, the threat to the Japanese players is a ploy by the PGA to prevent LIV Golf from making inroads in Japan.
The unexpected result gave the Hinomaru its best finish ever at the tournament and represented a remarkable reversal of fortune.
Japan finished top of Group B in the preliminary round but couldn't carry the momentum over to the quarterfinals.
The Pyeongchang silver medalist could never recover from a sub-par jump on the normal hill.
Hanae Kubo scored the dramatic winning goal in Japan’s final match of the ice hockey tournament's preliminary round.
With seven points in Group B, Japan reached the last eight for the first time in four Olympic appearances.
Six Smile Japan players scored a goal as coach Yuji Iizuka’s squad improved to 2-0 in Beijing.
Smile Japan is aiming to improve on the country's best-ever Olympic result of sixth place at the Pyeongchang Games.
In a recently launched anime series, the "Dream Monkeys" take to the ice to spread the word of Japanese ice hockey both at home and abroad.
Medal hopeful Japan will face defending champion U.S. in a rematch of the 2019 worlds.
Coach Yuji Iizuka’s squad will be looking to improve on its eighth-place finish at the 2019 worlds in Finland, where it lost to the U.S. 4-0...
