Japan, the birthplace of judo, dominates the all-time Olympic medal table. Japan's 48 gold medals and 96 medals overall are far and away the most of any country. France (16 gold medals, 57 total ...

Japan won 12 medals in Judo during the Tokyo Olympics, and that included 9 golds. That was as total a dominance as ever in a ...

Japan has won nine gold medals, two silvers and one bronze in the judo in Tokyo - a record haul since it became an Olympic event for men in 1964 and for women in 1992. The new teams event meant a ...

Japan's vaunted judo team won nine gold medals and 12 total medals in this Japanese-born sport three years ago at its home Olympics. The team is so good that winning two gold medals from four ...

Japan regularly dominates the Olympics judo medal table, but federation president Yasuhiro Yamashita told Agence France-Presse that the values of the sport are being lost as parents and coaches ...

Here’s what you need to know about judo at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The art of judo derives from the ancient Japanese martial art of jiu-jitsu. The credit for the formal founding of Judo, ...

Chizuru Arai is the latest Japanese judoka to claim a medal at the Tokyo Olympics, a gold one at that ... Naohisa Takato, Hifumi Abe, Shohei Ono, and Takanori Nagase had claimed judo gold on the men's ...

Former Japan Football Association President Kozo Tashima has emerged as a candidate to replace outgoing Japanese Olympic ...

She turned heads as she made her way to watch judo at the Champ-de-Mars Arena dressed in the traditional Japanese outfit and 'hachimaki' headband she always wears to Olympic events. Children and ...

Japanese Masaki Yamaoka and Moroccan ... fo Brazil competes against Gabriella Rivera of the U.S. in Judo at the Australia Youth Olympic Festival, in Sydney, Australia, 2013.