After Team USA's Xander Schauffele won gold in the men's tournament last week, 23-year-old World No. 1 Nelly Korda earned the United States a second golf gold in the women's tournament. Closing out ... ( read original story ...)
As Pandemic Olympics wane, Japan asks: What did Games mean?
Was it the strangest Olympics ever, staged during a deadly global pandemic, with no fans? How about the angriest, awash in protests and fierce opposition from large swaths of the host nation? ( read original story ...)
Left out of Olympics, men’s rhythmic gymnasts loved in Japan
In the suburbs of Tokyo, Hiromi Matsumoto found herself falling in love with online videos of rhythmic gymnastics — a spectacular swirl of ballet and acrobatics, clubs soaring through the air, bodies ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mone Inami bests Lydia Ko for Olympic silver medal in playoff
For the second consecutive week a playoff was needed to round out the medal podium at the Olympic golf competition, and this time it was Japan's Mone Inami edging Lydia Ko for silver. ( read original story ...)
The Secret History of Japanese Wine
The story most often repeated — in Japan and beyond — is that Japanese winemaking started just 150 years ago with the introduction of European oenology. But I'd read in the Kikizake-shi textbook (like ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Dai-ichi Life to buy Westpac’s life business for about A$900 million -Nikkei
Japan's Dai-ichi Life Holdings will buy Australian banking group Westpac's life insurance business for about A$900 million ($665.5 million), the Nikkei reported on Friday. ( read original story ...)
Marathon fans in Sapporo break the Olympic silence, but the heat is unrelenting
Just past 6 a.m. Saturday on the streets of this 1972 Winter Olympic city of two million, 514 miles north of Tokyo on the island of Hokkaido, there came a sound so achingly lacking at these hushed ... ( read original story ...)
The Olympic Marathon in Sapporo: A Test of Survival
The runners best able to handle the brutal conditions prevailed. Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won the race, with Brigid Kosgei taking silver and Molly Seidel winning bronze in her third-ever marathon. ( read original story ...)
Olympics-Judo-Riner shines even as Japan judokas win record gold
By Tetsushi KajimotoTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese judokas achieved a record gold medal rush for the host country at the Tokyo Games, but it was France's Teddy Riner who stole the show at the home of ... ( read original story ...)
Olympic Baseball Tokyo 2020: How to Watch USA vs. Japan Gold Medal Game Live
Team USA looks for a first Olympic gold in 21 years, while Japan could finish top of the podium in baseball at the Olympics for the first time. ( read original story ...)
2 coaches removed from Tokyo Olympics in Belarus case
Two Belarus team coaches have been removed from the Olympics, four days after they were involved in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to their country. ( read original story ...)
Culture Round-Up: Britney Spears to Zomato IPO- all that kept internet buzzing in July
The discussions around Covid have started dying out while sports & entertainment enjoy more positive sentiment ... ( read original story ...)
Japan must now tackle a different hurdle: earnings guidance
As the games come to an end this weekend, the Nikkei will likely rebound more sharply. That said, challenges remain. One thing that has limited Japanese pensioners’ trust in equities is overly ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 4.0 earthquake strikes near Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
A very deep magnitude 4.0 earthquake was reported in the morning near Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. According to Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), the ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics-Baseball-Japan a win from gold feel onus to avoid sorrow, boost interest
Frowns are about all Japan shortstop Hayato Sakamoto can remember of his country's last gold-medal game in baseball.Then just five years old, Sakamoto, now 32, told Reuters: "I remember they weren't ... ( read original story ...)
Paris 2024 Presses On With Plan A, but Studies Tokyo’s Plan B
Paris says it’s prepared, but so was Tokyo. By Tariq Panja TOKYO — Tony Estanguet wants to talk about how the next Olympic Games, in Paris in 2024, will be a paradigm-shifting moment for an event that ... ( read original story ...)