Topic: Tokyo
Towering French judoka Teddy Riner is aiming to become the first man to win five gold medals when the world championships return to their roots in Tokyo this week for the first time in half a century. But his Japanese rivals are ...
Defending champion Maria Sharapova will return to Tokyo next month, spearheading the star-studded Pan Pacific Open women's tennis tournament, organisers said on Monday. Twenty-seven players out of the current world top 30 will take part in the two-million-dollar hard court tournament from ...
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Nearly 500 people, some in business suits and others in shorts and with dogs in tow, stretched, twisted and bent their bodies in Tokyo at the crack of dawn as part of a new trend to keep fit ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Ai Miyazato has become Japan's first world number one golfer after taking over at the top of the women's game. She replaced South Korea's Jiyai Shin after winning her fourth LPGA Tour title in New Jersey at the weekend. ...
Sumo's governing body on Thursday disciplined two of the sport's bosses for handing favours to yakuza crime figures in the latest scandal to hit Japan's 2,000-year-old national sport. The Japan Sumo Association slapped penalties on two stable masters after they allegedly helped ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) plans to grill Hiroshima's mayor this week to determine how serious he is about the city's 2020 Games bid. Leading JOC officials will travel to Hiroshima on Friday to seek assurances from mayor Tadatoshi ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Daisuke Takahashi was feted by his country's media on Friday after becoming the first Japanese man to win a figure skating world title. Broadsheets and tabloids hailed Takahashi's Turin victory simply as "history for Japan" before the country ...
Japan on Tuesday said it has China's support in opposing a ban on the cross-border trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna that is now being debated at an international meeting in Qatar. Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu said that "we will ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese women's rugby team for the 2016 Olympics could be made up of a fearsome mixture of rough-and-tumble martial arts experts. The karate-kicking hopefuls were joined by judoka among a total of 88 women who took part in ...
Japan's Mao Asada arrived in Vancouver Saturday determined to shatter arch-rival and reigning world champion Kim Yu-Na's dreams of Olympic gold. "When I got on the plane, I felt anxious about how it would go. But when I got here, I started ...
