TOKYO (AP) — Japan is the home of judo, and the 19th-century martial art is sure to get more attention at home than any other sport at next year's Tokyo Olympics. But it’s also drawing unwanted ...

New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced that Japanese Judo Olympic gold medalist Aaron Wolf is the newest addition to their roster. On June 23rd, New Japan Pro-Wrestling held a sudden press conference to ...

Even Japan, which used to maintain a death grip on the top ranks of judo, must battle with a United Nations’ rainbow of worthy competitors. In London, 386 judoka, as judo athletes are called, have ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 26: Bilal Ciloglu (white) of Turkey competes with Shohei Ono (blue) of Japan in the judo men’s -73kg last 16 round during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan on July 26, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - "Japanese judo is dead". That was the damning verdict of Japanese journalists watching dejectedly as heavyweight Daiki Kamikawa trudged off after losing in the last 16 on Friday, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Aaron Wolf and Shori Hamada grabbed gold medals in their respective judo finals on Thursday, taking the host nation's tally to eight golds from the sport at the Tokyo Games ...

PARIS, July 30 (Reuters) - Japan's Takanori Nagase retained the Olympic under 81kg judo title he won in Tokyo three years ago before Andreja Leski triumphed in the women's under 63kg final to hand ...

PARIS — Teddy Riner earned the decisive victory as France defended its Olympic title in mixed team judo on Saturday night, beating Japan in the final for the second straight Games. After Riner secured ...

PARIS (AP) — The Abe siblings’ dream of winning judo gold medals for Japan on the same day in their second straight Olympics ended early on Sunday with Uta Abe’s shocking loss to Diyora Keldiyorova of ...

This is day five and the final team tournament in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital city that hosts the Judo Junior World Mixed Team Championship. The Teams is an event like no other. It takes the ...