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Japan: Typhoon Nakri Brings Strong Winds to Southern Izu Islands

Typhoon Nakri made its closest approach to the southern Izu Islands on Monday morning, October 13, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.

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US: Unoccupied Homes in Buxton, NC Collapse Amid Rough Seas From Offshore Hurricanes 2

On Tuesday, September 30, at least five unoccupied oceanfront homes in Buxton, North Carolina, collapsed into the Atlantic due to rough surf driven by offshore hurricanes Humberto and Imelda. Another home fell the following morning, bringing the total to six this week and 18 on Hatteras Island since 2020. No injuries were reported, but authorities closed parts of Cape Hatteras National Seashore due to dangerous debris.

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Nishikori, Nara win JPTA Special Award

TOKYO, Japan - Kei Nishikori (R) and Kurumi Nara pose after receiving the Japan Professional Tennis Association's Special Award for 2014 at a ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2014.

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ATP chief praises rising Japan tennis star Nishikori

LONDON, England - Chris Kermode, executive chairman and president of the Association of Tennis Professionals, praises rising Japanese star Kei Nishikori during an interview with Kyodo News in London in November 2014. Kermode is shown in this file photo taken on Nov. 26, 2013.

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Ex-partners of united Korea table tennis team may meet again

TOKYO, Japan - Ri Bun Hui (L) of North Korea and Hyung Jung Hwa of South Korea beat a French pair as a united Korea team to win the women's doubles event in the World Table Tennis Championships held in Chiba, Japan, in April 1991. The two players may meet again for the first time since 1993 at the Asian Paralympics in Incheon, South Korea, in October 2014 as Pyongyang has applied for participation in the event under the name of Ri, now secretary general of North Korea's association of physically disabled athletes.

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U.S. Open tennis runner-up Nishikori returns home

NARITA, Japan - Kei Nishikori (R), the runner-up at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, receives flowers from Nobuo Kuroyanagi, chairman of the Japan Tennis Association, during a press conference at a hotel in Narita near Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2014, after returning home. Nishikori became the first Asian man to play in a Grand Slam singles final.

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China-U.S. 'Ping pong diplomacy' remembered in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Xu Yinsheng (L) from China, former president of the International Table Tennis Federation, and Atsushi Goto, head of the Aichi Table Tennis Association, shake hands at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, central Japan, on May 7, 2014. The gym was a venue at the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships where an encounter between Chinese and U.S. teams led to the start of talks on establishing diplomatic relations between Beijing and Washington.

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Ishikawa: youngest table tennis player to play for Japan at world c'ships

OSAKA, Japan - Kasumi Ishikawa, 14, was chosen by the Japan Table Tennis Association on Feb. 26 as a member of the Japanese national team to the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia from May 21-27. At 14 years and 3 months during the Zagreb tournament, Ishikawa will be the youngest table tennis player to represent Japan at a world championships event -- 3 months younger than the record held by Ai Fukuhara in the 2003 world championships.

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Sugiyama honored by Japan Tennis Association

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's top tennis player Ai Sugiyama waves to fans at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo on Nov. 22 after she was honored by the Japan Tennis Association for entering the top 10 of the world singles ranking.

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Ishikawa: youngest table tennis player to play for Japan at worl

OSAKA, Japan - Kasumi Ishikawa, 14, was chosen by the Japan Table Tennis Association on Feb. 26 as a member of the Japanese national team to the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia from May 21-27. At 14 years and 3 months during the Zagreb tournament, Ishikawa will be the youngest table tennis player to represent Japan at a world championships event -- 3 months younger than the record held by Ai Fukuhara in the 2003 world championships. (Kyodo)

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Tennis trophy lost in WWII recreated after 70 years

(From L) Nippon Club President Motomu Takahashi, Japan Tennis Association President Nobuo Kuroyanagi and Japanese Consul General in New York Reiichiro Takahashi pose with a replica of the recreated New York Cup during a ceremony in the U.S. city on Sept. 4, 2015. The trophy, originally created in 1921 by the Nippon Club, a private social group in New York, to celebrate Japan's first participation in the Davis Cup tennis tournament, was lost during World War II but recently reproduced by the Japan Tennis Association. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pre-war era Japanese tennis player's suicide note found

This is a photo of Jiro Sato who committed suicide by jumping off a ship in the Strait of Malacca in April 1934 while en route to a Davis Cup match. In his suicide note, which was recently found at the Japan Tennis Association, Sato -- once the third-ranked player in the world -- said that he could not play tennis anymore and that he wanted to apologize to the country for taking his own life. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagoya group gives table tennis gear to S. Korean residents of Japan

People concerned pose before one of five table tennis tables and rackets presented to the Aichi prefectural headquarters of the Korean Residents Union in Japan from a Japan-South Korea economic and cultural exchange association in Nagoya, central Japan, on March 20, 2015. The gift was given to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Joint office opens for 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

Photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, shows a joint office housing about 25 sports organizations for people with disabilities including the Japan Wheelchair Tennis Association. The office opened the same day at the Nippon Foundation building with the aim of enhancing administrative works toward the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-partners of united Korea table tennis team may meet again

TOKYO, Japan - Ri Bun Hui (L) of North Korea and Hyung Jung Hwa of South Korea beat a French pair as a united Korea team to win the women's doubles event in the World Table Tennis Championships held in Chiba, Japan, in April 1991. The two players may meet again for the first time since 1993 at the Asian Paralympics in Incheon, South Korea, in October 2014 as Pyongyang has applied for participation in the event under the name of Ri, now secretary general of North Korea's association of physically disabled athletes. (Kyodo)

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U.S. Open tennis runner-up Nishikori returns home

NARITA, Japan - Kei Nishikori (R), the runner-up at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, receives flowers from Nobuo Kuroyanagi, chairman of the Japan Tennis Association, during a press conference at a hotel in Narita near Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2014, after returning home. Nishikori became the first Asian man to play in a Grand Slam singles final. (Kyodo)

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Tennis: Osaka ahead of Dubai championships

Reigning U.S. and Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka of Japan chats with Japan Tennis Association coach Masashi Yoshikawa during her training in Dubai on Feb. 18, 2019, ahead of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tennis: Naomi Osaka in Dubai

Naomi Osaka of Japan is pictured with Japan Tennis Association coach Masashi Yoshikawa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 16, 2019, ahead of the Dubai Tennis Championship starting the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retired table tennis star Fukuhara

Retired Japanese table tennis star Ai Fukuhari delivers a speech after receiving an award from the Japan Table Tennis Association in Osaka on Jan. 19, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tennis: Kato rallies to reach Japan Women's Open final

Japan's Miyu Kato celebrates after beating Croatia's Jana Fett 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-4 in the semifinals of the Japan Women's Open at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2017. Kato will appear in her first Women's Tennis Association Tour final, taking on Kazakhstan's Zarina Diyas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tennis: Kato rallies to reach Japan Women's Open final

Japan's Miyu Kato celebrates after beating Croatia's Jana Fett 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-4 in the semifinals of the Japan Women's Open at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2017. Kato will appear in her first Women's Tennis Association Tour final, taking on Kazakhstan's Zarina Diyas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tennis: Kato rallies to reach Japan Women's Open final

Japan's Miyu Kato reacts after taking a point against Croatia's Jana Fett in the semifinals of the Japan Women's Open at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2017. Kato beat Fett 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-4, advancing to her first Women's Tennis Association Tour final. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-tennis player Kamo, winner of U.S. Open men's doubles, dies

Undated photo shows former tennis player Kosei Kamo, one of only two Japanese men who have won a Grand Slam tennis title following World War II. Kamo, who with Atsushi Miyagi won the 1955 U.S. Open men's doubles crown, died on Jan. 6, 2017, at age 84 due to a heart attack, according to the Japan Tennis Association. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Table tennis: Japan body to launch new league around fall of 2018

Ichiro Hoshino (L), an executive of the Japan Table Tennis Association, and Koji Matsushita, a former top player, discuss in Tokyo on Dec. 10, 2016, a new league for professional and amateur players, with an eye to launching it in the fall of 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukuhara to compete at Asian Olympic qualifier

TOKYO, Japan - Teenager Ai Fukuhara (in file photo) will be fielded in the women's singles competition at next year's Asian Olympic qualifying event in Beijing, the Japan Table Tennis Association (JTTA) said on Dec. 13. Fukuhara, ranked 38th in the world, was a quarterfinalist at the World Championships in May and will have a shot to book a ticket to next summer's Athens Olympics if she can place among the top seven in the women's singles competition at the April 9-13 meet in Beijing. (Kyodo)

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Sugiyama honored by Japan Tennis Association

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's top tennis player Ai Sugiyama waves to fans at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo on Nov. 22 after she was honored by the Japan Tennis Association for entering the top 10 of the world singles ranking. (Kyodo)