PARIS--Japan won the Olympic men's foil team title for the first time, beating Italy in a thrilling bout at the Paris Games on Sunday, while France took the bronze to break the country's Olympic ...

Yashio, Japan – Emergency workers in Japan began building a ramp on Jan 31 to try and reach a 74-year-old truck driver who ...

Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara and Italian skier Miro Tabanelli made history by landing the first 2340s in competition ...

World Athletics announced its prize money decision unilaterally ahead of last year's Paris Games without consulting the IOC.

Children of the First Tokyo Olympics On October 10, 1964, I was just one year old and lived in Japan's second largest city, Osaka. Like Tokyo, the city had been ravaged by air raids during World ...

Any kind of Olympic medal, especially the gold, is held as one of the top accolades in any sportsperson’s career, and Japan made sure that their wrestlers deserved the best gift, that too ...

However, in the first OQS event in Shanghai, he finished 17th, jeopardizing his chances of being named to the Japanese Olympic skateboarding team. The OQS events mattered more for Japanese street ...

In recent winter Olympics locations—places such as Salt Lake City, Lake Placid, and Sapporo, Japan—visitors can ski the same world-class slopes as well as explore vibrant downtowns.