Takashi Sanada of Japan plays in the men's singles first round of wheelchair tennis at the Tokyo

Japan's Tomoki Sato celebrates after winning the men's T52 400m final at Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Aug.... Sato made a heroic charge down the final straight to claim the first gold of his Paralympic career, adding it to the two silvers he won in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.... " The start and first half of the race was at a faster pace than I had expected....

Yui Kamiji of Japan returns to Diede de Groot of the Netherlands during the women's wheelchair tennis singles final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on Sept.... " I was beaten by( my opponent's) power and tactics.... Trailing at 5-4 in the second set, the Japanese made a last-ditch effort, negotiating eight deuces to hold her serve and level the set....

TOKYO — Ayaka Kizu, a web designer in Tokyo, stood by her office desk one recent day, peeling Band-Aids off an apple-size portion of her right arm.... A meeting with clients had ended, so she was now free to reveal what lay underneath: a tattoo of a multicolored unicorn.Ms.... In the back alleys of Shinjuku, a buzzing Tokyo neighborhood, Takafumi Seto, 34, wears a T-shirt that shows off his red and black inked sleeve while he works as a barista at a trendy cafe.Mr....

Keiko Sugiura of Japan reacts after winning the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept.... Her gold, as well as one won by Keiichi Kimura in the pool, plus three silver and two bronze elsewhere, made Friday Japan's most successful day of the games so far.... The 50-year-old mother of two Sugiura broke away from the peloton on the second lap of the C1-3 road race around Fuji International Speedway and built a 20-second lead by the start of the third and final tour....