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After winning Japan’s first-ever medal in the sport, the five athletes are good on grains for quite a while.
With an Olympic medal on his resume, Shoma Uno says he’d like to enter a video game tournament.
Call for more balanced language following gold and silver medals for Japanese figure skaters runs into strong backlash.
Organizers find a way to let vision-impaired kids express their opinion of which of the adorable characters best represents Japan.
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These six mascots take their inspiration from sakura cherry blossoms, shrines, and Japanese fairy tales.
It looks like some graphic designer was aiming for the gold medal in passive-aggressiveness.
Chairman singles out two aspects of Japanese traditional culture that people of other nations “wouldn’t understand.”
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