Japan received its first gold medal in table tennis mixed doubles as the host country’s team smashed China’s winning streak. A surprising turn of events: Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito bested China’s Xu ...

For only the second time since 1992, a country besides China has claimed gold in an Olympic table tennis event. Japan's Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito interrupted China’s decades-long run of dominance in ...

SINGAPORE - Pop star Katy Perry sings in her song Firework that "after a hurricane comes a rainbow", and that would also be the ethos that guides Japan's women's table tennis world No. 3 Mima Ito ...

Fifteen-year-old Miwa Harimoto secured the final spot for the women’s national table tennis team for the 2024 Paris Olympics, being selected over Olympic medalist Mima Ito. The Japan Table Tennis ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s dynamic duo of Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito narrowly defeated long-invincible Chinese pair Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen to give the host country their first Olympic table tennis gold in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese medal favourite Mima Ito outplayed her Portuguese rival on Tuesday to move into the final 16 of the Olympic women's singles table tennis competition. The world number two, ...

July 14 (Reuters) - Japan's Mima Ito is not intimidated by China's formidable table tennis reputation in Olympics and the 15-year-old paddler will head to next month's Rio Games determined to make her ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese medal favourite Mima Ito outplayed Thailand’s Suthasini Sawettabut on Tuesday to move into the quarter-finals of the women’s singles table tennis competition at the Tokyo ...

Japanese table tennis star Mima Ito said she's ready to play without fans at the Tokyo Olympics, as long as it means the ... Already a Barron's subscriber? Sign In ...

March 31 (Reuters) - While many sports struggle to appeal to a younger generation, table tennis, it seems, is not one of them as Japanese 13-year-olds Miu Hirano and Mima Ito became the youngest ever ...