paid off big at the Paris Olympics. Japanese fencers took home five medals, more than the three the country had collected since the 2008 Beijing Games. Japan seized the gold medal in the men’s ...

But after seeing Yuki Ota clinch silver in the foil―Japan’s first individual medal in fencing―at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he picked up the sword. Then he switched to the epee while at ...

(CNN) -- Security concerns and sympathy toward Tibetans prompted a Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, to withdraw from participation in the Olympic torch relay next week, a temple official said on ...

Japanese Olympic superfan Kyoko Ishikawa had to watch the Tokyo Games from her couch three years ago, but she is back with a flag-waving, whistle-blowing bang in Paris. The 54-year-old ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- After mustering only two medals at the Paris Olympics, the Japanese women's judo team faces a difficult road as it seeks to reassert its dominance at the world ...