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SARA TAKANASHI

Viewers in Japan are temporarily adjusting their schedules to watch athletes like Kaori Sakamoto during the Milano Cortina Games despite an eight-hour time difference.
OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2026
Why we love the Olympics ¡ª even if we¡¯re not sports fans
Even in Japan ¡ª where baseball, soccer and sumo command loyal followings ¡ª the Games pull in everyone: the casually interested, the indifferent, even the self-declared non-fan.
Sara Takanashi attempts a jump during the mixed team ski jumping competition at the Milano Cortina Olympics in Predazzo, Italy, on Tuesday.
OLYMPICS / Ski jumping
Feb 12, 2026
Sara Takanashi overcomes Beijing nightmare with bronze at 2026 Games
The?Olympic medal was Takanashi¡¯s first since winning individual bronze eight years ago at the Pyeongchang Games.
Sport climber Miho Nonaka competes during the Tokyo Games in Aomi Urban Sports Park in August 2021.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 25, 2025
Beauty expert encourages female athletes to embrace game day glam
Beauty expert Miha Fukuoka believes sportswomen do not need to downplay their femininity to be taken seriously.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Mar 7, 2022
Sara Takanashi extends record with 63rd World Cup win
¡®I was able to produce two good jumps,¡¯ Takanashi said. ¡®It feels like I¡¯m making progress day by day.¡¯
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 5, 2022
The top rivalries to watch at the Beijing Olympics
For every big-name athlete or team at the Beijing Games, there is someone standing in the way of victory.
OLYMPICS
Feb 4, 2022
What to watch at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Catch up on five key storylines to keep an eye on at the Games over the next couple of weeks.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 28, 2019
Sara Takanashi sixth in Seefeld as Maren Lundby wins first world title
Â鶹´«Ã½ four-time World Cup overall champion Sara Takanashi finished sixth in the women¡¯s ski jumping final won by Norway¡¯s Olympic champion Maren Lundby at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships in Austria on Wednesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 13, 2018
Four years later, Sara Takanashi lands Olympic medal
Sara Takanashi exorcised the ghost of Sochi with a bronze medal in the normal hill jump at Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre on Monday night.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 12, 2014
Ski jump favorite Takanashi fails to land medal
Sara Takanashi, the favorite for the gold medal in the inaugural Olympic women¡¯s normal hill ski jump on Tuesday night, was kept off the podium after a disappointing effort at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Center.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 11, 2014
Takanashi in good spirits ahead of Olympic women¡¯s ski jumping competition
Sara Takanashi goes through another training session late Monday on the normal hill at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Centre and says she¡¯s in top form ahead of Tuesday night¡¯s event.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 9, 2014
Teenager Takanashi determined to claim gold medal
Ski jump star Sara Takanashi took part in her second training session on the normal hill Sunday at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Centre and said she wishes she could better familiarize herself with the venue.
OLYMPICS
Feb 9, 2014
Takanashi enjoying Olympic experience in Sochi
Ski jumper Sara Takanashi was upbeat following her first official training session at the RusSki Gorki Jumping Centre on Saturday.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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