After winning Japan’s first-ever medal in the sport, the five athletes are good on grains for quite a while.
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With an Olympic medal on his resume, Shoma Uno says he’d like to enter a video game tournament.
Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu became the first man in 66 years to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals in men’s figure skating at the PyeongChang Olympics on Saturday.
Call for more balanced language following gold and silver medals for Japanese figure skaters runs into strong backlash.
After originally omitting Japan from the world map, a PyeongChang Olympic website fixes the mistake only to have it erased again weeks later.
It looks like some graphic designer was aiming for the gold medal in passive-aggressiveness.
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