Features [JAPAN SPORTS NOTEBOOK] Dai Oketani Displays Coaching Chops in the Midst of Storybook Season Oketani’s dynamic coaching repertoire fuses old-school strategies with modern-day tactics. He’s positioned the Golden Kings for a run at a B. League title. Ed OdevenApril 17, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics Beijing Olympians Show Off Range of Japan's Talent and Skills with Great Results Team Japan finished the 2022 Winter Games with 18 medals, collecting top-three finishes in seven different sports. Ed OdevenFebruary 23, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics Lightning Strikes Again for Nana Takagi in Mass Start Speed Skating The defending champion suffered a fall at the turn that haunted her in the team pursuit earlier in the week. Jim ArmstrongFebruary 19, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Japan Women’s Curling Team Edges Switzerland to Reach Gold-Medal Match for First Time Skip Satsuki Fujisawa and her teammates handled the pressure of a high-stakes match and played more consistently in a bounce-back win over the Swiss. Ed OdevenFebruary 19, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics Speed Skater Miho Takagi Wins Women’s 1,000-Meter Gold in Record Time Takagi powered across the finish line in 1 minute, 13.18 seconds to help soothe the pain of Japan’s late collapse in the women’s team... Ed OdevenFebruary 17, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics Heartbreak on Ice: Nana Takagi Falls on Final Turn as Japan Settles for Silver Japan, which won Olympic gold in the team pursuit in 2018, held the lead before Takagi slid off the track in dramatic fashion against... Ed OdevenFebruary 15, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics American Erin Jackson Wins Speed Skating Gold in Women’s 500; Miho Takagi Takes Silver Nao Kodaira, the 2018 Olympic champion, trailed by a wide margin for large stretches of her race and finished 17th. Ed OdevenFebruary 14, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics Wataru Morishige Captures Men’s 500 Bronze; Japan Breaks Record in Women’s Team Pursuit Morishige finishes 0.17 seconds off the pace in his first Olympic race, while Japan exhibits top-notch form in the women’s quarterfinals. Ed OdevenFebruary 12, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Japan Curling Squad Slides to Victory Against Canada in Qualifying Round Skip Satsuki Fujisawa’s 97% accuracy in the draw was instrumental in the team’s result. SportsLookFebruary 12, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Netherlands’ Irene Schouten Wins with Speed Skating Record in Women’s 5,000 Misaki Oshigiri and Momoka Horikawa, Japan’s two skaters in the event, set personal-best times. SportsLookFebruary 11, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Smile Japan Triumphs Over Czechs in Penalty Shootout, Wins Group B Hanae Kubo scored the dramatic winning goal in Japan’s final match of the ice hockey tournament's preliminary round. Ed OdevenFebruary 9, 2022
Olympics and Paralympics OLYMPIC DIGEST | Speed Skater Miho Takagi Repeats as 1,500-Meter Silver Medalist Dutch superstar Ireen Wust defended her 2018 Pyeongchang Games title and collected her sixth overall Olympic gold to hold off Takagi’s title quest. Ed OdevenFebruary 7, 2022