Young wakeboarding sensation Taiga Takamura leads Japan's scene and aims for global success while training with his father at the foot of Mount Fuji.
Young wakeboarding sensation Taiga Takamura leads Japan's scene and aims for global success while training with his father at the foot of Mount Fuji.
Rishiri Island, off the coast of Hokkaido, is famous for its kelp and sea urchin. With an aging population, it is finding new ways to keep...
Executing difficult techniques on her snowboard is a never-ending quest for Reira Iwabuchi. The 21-year-old won the women's big air event at the Winter X Games.
The former California governor, movie star and bodybuilder recalls boyhood idol Yury Vlasov in an emotional anti-war video.
Team Japan finished the 2022 Winter Games with 18 medals, collecting top-three finishes in seven different sports.
Japanese athletes put on quite a show on February 15 in the exciting finals of both the men’s and women's competitions.
Gold medalist Austria saves its best for last in the final round, with Slovenia and Germany placing second and third, respectively.
The 25-year-old becomes only the second Japanese to medal on both hills at the same Olympics, after Kazuyoshi Funaki in 1998 in Nagano.
Spectators who follow the sport were largely confined to watching from home, but that did not prevent them from weighing in on the day. Here’s a...
After consecutive runner-up finishes in Sochi and Pyeongchang, the 23-year-old collects the top Olympic prize in Beijing.
American Chloe Kim defended her Olympic title with a top score of 94.00 points on her first run, while Tomita became the first Japanese female medalist...