Olympics (Page 5)
Alina Zagitova wants to give her new Akita Inu a name that means “victory,” but there’s one thing she might be overlooking.
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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.
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.”
One of the bleakest depictions of Tokyo in all of film is part of Olympics celebration projection mapping project.
Japan hasn’t hosted the Summer Olympics since 1964; three years from now marks their big chance to impress everyone on the world stage.
The Olympian’s bright blue underarms makes it hard to concentrate on her stunning performance.
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