June 14, 2021
The Japanese Olympic Committee approved 30 candidates as new board members, a list that includes JOC President Yasuhiro Yamashita, at the board meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.
Official approval is exp...
The Japanese Olympic Committee officially announced Thursday the names of 241 athletes who will participate in 16 sports at the Tokyo Olympics, with star swimmer Rikako Ikee and judoka Shohei Ono amo...
Toshiro Muto, director general of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee, said Wednesday he aims to have domestic reporters who are covering the Games be vaccinated against COVID-19....
Visiting foreign journalists covering the Tokyo Olympics will likely be tracked by GPS to monitor their activities, Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Games’ organizing committee, has said. Oversea...
PARIS (Reuters) — Alexander Zverev swept past Kei Nishikori 6-4 6-1 6-1 to reach the French Open quarter-finals for the third time on Sunday.
After a competitive opening set, the powerful German ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Yuka Saso bounced back from two early double bogeys and held off Japan’s Nasa Hataoka in the third hole of a sudden death playoff to win the 76th U.S. Women’s Open gol...
TOTTORI — Sprinter Ryota Yamagata celebrates next to his official time after clocking a Japan-record 9.95 seconds in the 100-meter dash, with a tailwind of 2 meters per second, on Sunday in Tottori...
The leaders of the four Grand Slam tournaments reacted Tuesday to tennis star Naomi Osaka’s stunning withdrawal from the French Open by promising to address players’ concerns about mental health....
Members of the Australian women’s softball team arrived at Na-rita Airport on Tuesday morning, becoming the first foreign Olympic team to enter Japan since the postponement of the Games last year, a...
Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open on Monday and wrote on Twitter that she would be taking a break from competition, a dramatic turn of events for a four-time Grand Slam champion who said she ...
PARIS (AP) — Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 when she skipped the news conference after her first-round victory at the French Open on Sunday — and drew a stunning warning from all four Grand Slam t...
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has expressed a negative view regarding another postponement of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“Basically, I think it would b...
DES MOINES, Iowa — She was introduced as “Sky ‘High’ Brown.”
And during Sky Brown’s four runs of the skateboarding meet, she lived up to her nickname with a dynamic performance that s...
Monday marked exactly two months until the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. As uneasiness over coronavirus countermeasures is leading to growing skepticism about holding the Games, athletes overseas pr...
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — The pandemonium closed in around Phil Mickelson as he walked toward the 18th green at Kiawah Island, where thousands upon thousands of euphoric fans wanted a piece of the...
Ayumu Hirano, a snowboarder who soared to silver in the halfpipe event at two successive Winter Olympic Games, is set to represent Japan in the new men’s skateboarding competition at the Tokyo Olym...
No. 8 maegashira Endo spoiled newly re-promoted ozeki Terunofuji’s early championship celebration at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Saturday at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan, but it didn’t come...
Ozeki Terunofuji made mammoth No. 6 maegashira Ichinojo look like a sparring partner on Day 13 of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan on Friday.
Terunofuji, in his remarka...
At least 75% of athletes who will stay in the athletes village during the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or are scheduled to be inoculated before the Games start...
Medical staff working at Games venues will undergo daily coronavirus tests, according to Olympic minister Tamayo Marukawa.
The tests will be conducted on “people who are likely to be in close prox...
Tokyo Paralympics-bound Kenya Karasawa broke the world record in the men’s T11 vision impaired 5,000 meters, clocking 15 minutes 9.94 seconds at the East Japan corporate athletics championships on ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons has stressed his confidence that the Tokyo Paralympics will go ahead as scheduled this summer.
Regarding the possib...
Tennis great Roger Federer has called on Olympics organisers to end the uncertainty around the Tokyo Games, with the 20-times Grand Slam winner saying he was still in two minds whether to compete. ...
Training camps and other pre-Games events for the teams of countries competing in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been canceled in 45 municipalities, Tamayo Marukawa, the minister in charge o...
The government may deport athletes and other participants in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics if they violate behavioral restrictions in Japan set to contain the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Y...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, who qualified for the Olympics after overcoming leukaemia last year, asked the public to show patience and support for athletes amid mounting calls f...
SAGA — A mural of judo legend and Olympic hero Toshihiko Koga was completed Friday, adorning the wall of a department store in Saga City.
Koga, who died this past March, was a Saga Prefecture nati...
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach’s visit to Japan this month will likely be canceled, sources told The Yomiuri Shimbun on Friday.
Bach was planning to visit Japan to particip...
LONDON (Jiji Press) — U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its German partner, BioNTech SE, will donate doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to participants to this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Par...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tennis star Naomi Osaka was named Sportswoman of the Year at the 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards on Thursday. Osaka, who won her second U.S. Open singles title last year, bec...
Yokozuna Hakuho notified the Japan Sumo Association on Friday that he will withdraw from the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament scheduled to start at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sunday.
It will be the ...
Japan earned a medal in the men’s 4x400-meter relay at a global meet for the first time when the quartet of Rikuya Ito, Kaito Kawabata, Kentaro Sato and Aoto Suzuki finished second at the World Athl...
Hanshin Tigers hurler Joe Gunkel made a shift in approach in the offseason, deciding to mix in a few more cut fastballs. The change is now helping him carve up Central League lineups this year.
The r...
The International Olympic Committee estimates that about 60% of the 10,000 overseas athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus before coming to Japan, according to...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga invited Hideki Matsuyama, the first Japanese male golfer to win the Masters Tournament, to the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday morning and honored him with the Prime ...
A spectator cap for Tokyo Olympic events will be set in June based on coronavirus guidelines for sporting events in Japan in the month, according to the Games organizing committee.
The central gover...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Two-way star Shohei Ohtani of Los Angeles Angels became the first major league player since Babe Ruth in 1921 to take the mound as the starting pitcher while also leading the leag...
With the countdown to the July 23 opening of the Tokyo Olympics at three months, organizers consider measures to deal with a pandemic with no end in sight. This is the second of the series, in which ...
Nippon Professional Baseball decided Saturday to close doors to spectators at games in prefectures placed under the latest novel coronavirus-related state of emergency from Sunday through May 11.
O...
Swimmer Rikako Ikee, 20, a junior at Nihon University who after recovering from leukemia earned a place on the national team for the Tokyo Olympics, attended a send-off party of the university’s sw...
The Yomiuri Giants received a shot in the arm — a double dose, in fact — when new imports Justin Smoak and Eric Thames completed the required self-isolation period and joined the team last week.
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Women’s Nordic ski jumper Sara Takanashi, who set a Guinness World Record for the most World Cup podium finishes with 109, received her official certificate on Friday. She also broke her own Guinne...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan sucked in its breath as Hideki Matsuyama almost blew his chance to win the Masters but the golfer’s one-shot victory at Augusta National sparked a joyous reaction back hom...
Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura said Monday he is canceling the leg of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay scheduled to take place in Matsuyama on April 21, due to the continuing spread of the novel coronaviru...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) — Hideki Matsuyama overcame a potentially ruinous moment to become the first Japanese man to win a major championship with a one-shot Masters victory over Will Zalatoris at A...
Rikako Ikee won the women’s 50-meter butterfly in 25.56 seconds, a personal best since returning to the sport since her fight against leukemia, at the Japan swimming championships on Saturday at th...
JAMBUR, India (AFP-Jiji) — Rohit Majgul has weathered racism and rejection in India as part of a marginalised community tracing its roots back to Africa — but he still dreams of bringing sporting ...
WASHINGTON — The State Department said Tuesday the Biden administration is consulting with allies about a joint approach to China and its human rights record, including how to handle the upcoming B...
Rikako Ikee was no stranger to winning at big events like the Japan swimming championships, having done it plenty of times before. But never did she have to overcome her own doubts as she did in winn...
Rikako Ikee, who returned to competition only last summer after undergoing treatment for leukemia, earned an unexpected ticket to the Tokyo Olympics when she won the women’s 100-meter butterfly at ...
Swimming’s world governing body, dissatisfied with Japanese government provisions regarding coronavirus countermeasures, is considering canceling three upcoming events in Japan, including two that ...
In a scene that few could have ever foreseen, Terunofuji accepted promotion to ozeki for the second time in his career in the formal ceremony reserved for those rising to the two highest ranks of sum...
Yuki Tsunoda finished in ninth place at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, capping off an impressive debut in Formula One.
The 20-year-old AlphaTauri driver became the first Japanese t...
Nariyuki Masuda, who has been selected as a member of the men’s national cycling road team, traveled his leg of the Tokyo Games torch relay on the fifth day in Utsunomiya on Monday.
Masuda, 37, ...
Athletes from abroad might be invited to five of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic test events that will resume in April following a one-year hiatus after the Games were postponed, the Tokyo Organizing...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — American Nathan Chen won the men’s singles gold for the third consecutive time at the figure skating world championships on Saturday as early favourite Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan...
The primary goal had always been to get enough wins to secure promotion back to ozeki after four years of pain and redemption. Having done that, sekiwake Terunofuji now has the chance to celebrate eve...
INAWASHIRO, Fukushima — The orange flames of the Olympic torch flickered on the slopes of Mt. Bandai as the Tokyo Games relay continued its way through Fukushima Prefecture on Friday.
Three-time ...
Sara Takanashi became the all-time leader in career ski jumping World Cup podium finishes with 109 when the Japanese finished second on Friday at a meet in Chaikovsky, Russia.
Takanashi entered t...
Baseball teams and stadiums are making efforts to prevent coronavirus infections and improve the fan experience ahead of the opening of Japan’s professional baseball season.
The Yomiuri Giants an...
A loss by komusubi Takayasu opened the door for sekiwake — and fellow former ozeki — Terunofuji to grab a share of the lead after 13 days of action on Friday at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament i...
