Momota captured the top spot at the Badminton All Japan Championships in December. The national team was slated to participate in the Thailand Open starting on Jan. 12, as well as other competitions.
Thinaah reached the final with a hard fought 21-19, 19-21, 26-24 win over Japan's Rin Iwanaga-Kie Nakanishi. The world No. 7 showed great fighting spirit to come back from 11-16 down in the third ...
Japan had won 15 straight badminton matches at the Tokyo Games, but that streak came to a halt on Tuesday with losses in both men's and women's doubles, leaving badminton superpower China as the only ...
Japan won its first-ever mixed-doubles bronze ... Watanabe, the only Japanese man to win an Olympic medal in badminton, said he hopes others win more and that he is honored have been the first.
It only took 34 minutes for the pair to pull off one of the biggest upsets in Olympic badminton history, and they did it in dominant fashion. Lee and Wang only needed two games to defeat Li and Liu, ...