The selection of multicultural athletes to represent Japan at such moments--unthinkable a few decades ago--comes as organizers made “diversity and inclusion” an Olympic theme. But like many ...

PARIS--Years of efforts by the Japanese Fencing Federation to groom top-flight competitors, including enlisting coaches from France and Ukraine, paid off big at the Paris Olympics. Japanese ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan, a winner of silver and bronze medals in women's curling at the past two Winter Olympics, will take one last shot at an Olympic berth at December's final qualifying ...

Over 50 years since pictograms were first used at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura has created 50 new symbols ahead of next year’s event In 1964, Japan took to the world ...

30, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- After amassing four gold medals at the Paris Olympics, the Japan women's wrestling team has welcomed two of its former stars into the coaching ranks in a bid to ...