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 ...

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 ...

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) -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 ...

(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 mark.

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 ...

Ito Mima of Japan serves during the women's singles 3rd place final between Ito Mima of Japan and Han Ying of Germany at the 2020 ITTF women's world cup in Weihai, east China's Shandong Province, Nov.