In a field consisting entirely of teenagers, World No. 1 and No. 2 Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama of Japan were going neck and neck to claim the Olympic title in their debut. Fourteen-year-old Yoshizawa ...

PARIS -- Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama of Japan took gold and silver in women's street skateboarding at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, and Rayssa Leal of Brazil got bronze to win her second medal in ...

The 62-year-old was driven by a sense of responsibility for the pets being abandoned as “it came about because of the ...

PARIS--Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama took gold and silver for Japan in women's street skateboarding at the Paris Olympics on Sunday and Rayssa Leal of Brazil got bronze to win her second medal in ...

After working in the Kanto eastern Japan region, Akama returned to his hometown and joined a TEPCO subcontractor to work at the nuclear plant and other facilities. Later, he set up a ...

Clanuwat initially connected with Akama while researching. Clanuwat arrived in Japan in 2008 as a Japanese government-sponsored international student with the aim of researching classical literature.