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COCO YOSHIZAWA

Soya Inomata finished with the silver medal in the men's skateboard vert final at X Games Chiba at Makuhari Messe on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Action sports
Sep 21, 2024
Keyaki Ike grabs gold as skateboarders take center stage at X Games Chiba
Ike beat out U.S. great Nyjah Huston and the rest of the field for gold at X Games Chiba.
Coco Yoshizawa competes in the women's street skateboarding final, which she went on to win, at the Paris Olympics on July 28.
MORE SPORTS / Action sports
Sep 19, 2024
Top skaters and riders set to wow Japan crowd at X Games Chiba
The elements won't be a factor this year, with the event moving indoors after rain disrupted previous editions.
Yuka Kagami celebrates with her medal after winning the women's 76-kg freestyle wrestling event on the final day of the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS
Aug 12, 2024
Japan finishes third on medal table after strong showing at Paris Olympics
Japan won 20 gold medals at the Paris Olympics for its best showing at an overseas Games.
Yuto Horigome defended his Olympic title in men's street skateboarding on Monday to continue Japan's dominant run in the event.
OLYMPICS / Skateboarding
Aug 1, 2024
Why Japan is so dominant in street skateboarding
Skateboarding has only been a part of the Olympics for two editions, but the sight of Japanese skaters on the podium in the street competition is already a familiar one.
Skateboarding women's street gold medalist Coco Yoshizawa (left) alongside silver medalist and compatriot Liz Akama in Paris on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Skateboarding
Jul 30, 2024
A star is born as teen Coco Yoshizawa basks in the glow of skateboarding gold
Yoshizawa has been receiving congratulatory messages from all corners after her golden performance on Sunday in Paris.
Brazil's Rayssa Leal listens to music as she competes in the women's street skateboarding final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Skateboarding
Jul 29, 2024
Golden oldies? Teen medalists reach podium to '80s and '90s tunes
It was clear that Gen X had control of the playlist on Sunday in Paris, with artists from the 1980s and 1990s that included Tom Petty and Eurythmics.
Gold medalist Coco Yoshizawa and silver medalist Liz Akama celebrate after the women's skateboarding street competition at La Concorde in Paris on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Skateboarding
Jul 28, 2024
Coco Yoshizawa skates to gold for Japan at Paris Olympics
Yoshizawa led after the preliminary round and threw down the highest-scoring trick of the afternoon to rally past teammate Liz Akama and win the gold medal.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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