Ex-Olympian Ota teaches wrestling at Tokyo's Waseda University

Ex-Olympian Ota teaches wrestling at Tokyo's Waseda University

Akira Ota (rear), silver medalist at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympic Games in the men's 90-kg class freestyle wrestling competition, teaches a wrestling class for adults at Waseda University's Open College on Feb. 26, 2015, at the university's wrestling facility in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-Olympian eyes sailing team member for America's Cup

Ex-Olympian eyes sailing team member for America's Cup

Yugo Yoshida (far R), a 470-class dinghy sailor in the 2012 London Olympics, goes through a physical fitness measurement in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 27, 2015, in a qualifying test for crew members of a Japanese team for the 2017 America's Cup in Bermuda. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-Olympian Tamesue fears "totalitarian atmosphere"

Ex-Olympian Tamesue fears "totalitarian atmosphere"

Guest speaker Dai Tamesue, a three-time Olympian in athletics, speaks at an international symposium on peace in Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 25, 2015. At the symposium titled "The Road to Nuclear Abolition," he expressed fears over possible development of a totalitarian atmosphere in society in connection with militarism-dominated Japan during World War II. His grandmother was subjected to nuclear radiation at the time of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diet member, Ex-Olympian Hashimoto to have baby

Diet member, Ex-Olympian Hashimoto to have baby

TOKYO, Japan - Seiko Hashimoto, a House of Councillors member and a former Olympic athlete in speed skating and cycling, announces in Tokyo on Jan. 17 she will have a baby in April. Hashimoto, 35, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, married Katsuhiko Ishizaki, 43, a member of the Metropolitan Police Department, in December 1998.