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News photo exhibition in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 10 Kyodo - Japanese gymnast Aiko Sugihara jumps in front of a photo of herself celebrating the women's floor exercise gold she won at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta in October, as an exhibition of news photos from 2025 kicks off at a department store in Tokyo on Dec. 10, 2025. Around 300 photos are on display at the event that runs through Dec. 22. (Kyodo)

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News photo exhibition in Tokyo

News photo exhibition in Tokyo

Japanese gymnast Aiko Sugihara jumps in front of a photo of herself celebrating the women's floor exercise gold she won at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta in October, as an exhibition of news photos from 2025 kicks off at a department store in Tokyo on Dec. 10, 2025. Around 300 photos are on display at the event that runs through Dec. 22.

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News photo exhibition in Tokyo

News photo exhibition in Tokyo

Japanese gymnast Aiko Sugihara poses in front of a photo of herself celebrating the women's floor exercise gold she won at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta in October, as an exhibition of news photos from 2025 kicks off at a department store in Tokyo on Dec. 10, 2025. Around 300 photos are on display at the event that runs through Dec. 22.

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News photo exhibition in Tokyo

News photo exhibition in Tokyo

Japanese gymnast Aiko Sugihara signs on a photo of herself celebrating the women's floor exercise gold she won at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta in October, as an exhibition of news photos from 2025 kicks off at a department store in Tokyo on Dec. 10, 2025. Around 300 photos are on display at the event that runs through Dec. 22.

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Gymnastics gold medalist Oka awarded in Okayama

Gymnastics gold medalist Oka awarded in Okayama

Japanese gymnast Shinnosuke Oka (R) is given the Okayama prefecture's citizen honor award from Okayama Gov. Ryuta Ibaragi at the prefecture's government office in Okayama on Aug. 26, 2024. The Okayama prefecture native won three gold medals in the men's gymnastics individual all-around, horizontal bar and team events, and a bronze medal in the parallel bars at the Paris Olympics.

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Gymnastics gold medalist Oka in Okayama

Gymnastics gold medalist Oka in Okayama

Japanese gymnast Shinnosuke Oka strikes a peace sign at the Okayama prefectural government building in his home prefecture of Okayama on Aug. 26, 2024, with a banner celebrating his three gold medals and one bronze medal won at the Paris Olympics.

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Paris Olympics: Artistic Gymnastics

Paris Olympics: Artistic Gymnastics

Japanese artistic gymnast Shinnosuke Oka, wearing his men's individual all-around and team gold medals, takes a selfie at the Paris Olympics Champions Park at the Trocadero in the French capital on Aug. 1, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Artistic Gymnastics

Paris Olympics: Artistic Gymnastics

Japanese artistic gymnast Shinnosuke Oka receives a massage after practice near Paris on July 20, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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Japanese gymnasts' return to Tokyo

Japanese gymnasts' return to Tokyo

Japanese gymnast Daiki Hashimoto (2nd from L) responds to reporters' questions upon arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 10, 2023, following his trip to the Belgian city of Antwerp, where he won three gold medals at the world championships.

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SACHIKO GYMNAST-COACH

SACHIKO GYMNAST-COACH,Sachiko Hasegawa==Date:Oct, 1973, Place:Chiba,JAPAN, (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Gymnastics: Japan's Teramoto 8th in women's all-around

Gymnastics: Japan's Teramoto 8th in women's all-around

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 11 Kyodo - Japanese gymnast Asuka Teramoto performs on the floor in the women's all-around final at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games on Aug. 11, 2016. Teramoto finished eighth.

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Olympics: Japan's Nakano crashes out in trampoline qualification round

Olympics: Japan's Nakano crashes out in trampoline qualification round

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 12 Kyodo - Japanese trampoline gymnast Rana Nakano performs during the women's qualification round of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Aug. 12, 2016. The 18-year-old did not qualify for the final after finishing in 13th place.

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Gymnast Uchimura gets MVP for 6th straight year

Gymnast Uchimura gets MVP for 6th straight year

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese gymnast and five-time Olympic medalist Kohei Uchimura speaks at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2015, after being named the Japan Gymnastics Association's most valuable player of 2014 for the sixth year in a row.

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Legendary gymnast Ono at Tokyo Olympics 50th anniv. event

Legendary gymnast Ono at Tokyo Olympics 50th anniv. event

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Ono, a legendary Japanese gymnast, attends an event at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 10, 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Japan's capital.

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Gymnast Uchimura wins 7th straight all-round national title

Gymnast Uchimura wins 7th straight all-round national title

TOKYO, Japan - London Olympics men's gymnastics gold medalist Kohei Uchimura wins his seventh successive national individual all-round championship title in Tokyo on May 11, 2014, achieving a feat never before done by a Japanese gymnast.

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Gymnast Uchimura wins seven consecutive national titles

Gymnast Uchimura wins seven consecutive national titles

TOKYO, Japan - Kohei Uchimura, the five-time Olympic medalist, performs on the parallel bar at the Japanese Gymnastics Championships at Yoyogi Gymnasium in Tokyo on May 11, 2014, en route to victory, becoming the first to win seven consecutive national individual all-round titles in Japan.

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Japan gymnast Kato on pommel horse at Tokyo World Cup

Japan gymnast Kato on pommel horse at Tokyo World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese gymnast Ryohei Kato performs his pommel horse routine during the Tokyo World Cup gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 5, 2014.

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Tokyo's Olympic bid presentation

Tokyo's Olympic bid presentation

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Japanese gymnast Rie Tanaka delivers a speech during the Association of National Olympic Committees General Assembly in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 15, 2013, as a presenter for Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Games.

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Tokyo's Olympic bid presentation

Tokyo's Olympic bid presentation

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Japanese gymnast Rie Tanaka delivers a speech during the Association of National Olympic Committees General Assembly in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 15, 2013, as a presenter for Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Games.

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Int'l gymnastics body chief in Japan

Int'l gymnastics body chief in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Bruno Grandi of Italy, president of the International Federation of Gymnastics (L), receives a bouquet from Japanese gymnast Rie Tanaka during a ceremony to award honorary doctorate to Grandi at Nippon Sport Science University in Tokyo on April 8, 2013.

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Karzai in Japan

Karzai in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) receives flowers from Rie Tanaka, a Japanese gymnast set to compete in the London Olympics, after receiving an honorary doctorate from Nippon Sport Science University at the university in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on July 9, 2012.

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JAL plane cheers on Olympic athletes with fuselage message

JAL plane cheers on Olympic athletes with fuselage message

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Boeing 777-200 aircraft of Japan Airlines Co., displaying the message ''Gambare Nippon!'' (Go Japan!) and a picture of gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a gold-medal hopeful, as it departs from Haneda airport in Tokyo for Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 27, 2012, as JAL inaugurated the aircraft to cheer on Japanese athletes participating in the London 2012 Olympics in the summer.

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Gymnast Uchimura, Yamamuro to join Konami

Gymnast Uchimura, Yamamuro to join Konami

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese gymnasts Kohei Uchimura (L) and Koji Yamamuro pose during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2011. Uchimura, a two-time world champion, and Yamamuro, another member of the Japanese team at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2010, will join the Konami group after graduating from Nippon Sport Science University in March 2011.

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World champion gymnast Uchimura to join Konami

World champion gymnast Uchimura to join Konami

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura, winner of the men's individual all-around title at two consecutive world championships, smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2011. Uchimura will join the Konami group after graduating from Nippon Sport Science University in March 2011.

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Gymnastics world champ Uchimura to join Konami

Gymnastics world champ Uchimura to join Konami

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura, winner of the men's individual all-around title at two consecutive world championships. The 22-year-old will join Konami Sports & Life Co., the company announced Jan. 5, 2011, where he will have a new training environment to prepare for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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Caslavska receives Japanese order

Caslavska receives Japanese order

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Vera Caslavska, a gymnast from the former Czechoslovakia, shows off the medal of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon conferred by Japan in a ceremony at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Prague on Dec. 7, 2010. Caslavska, a 68-year-old gold medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was awarded under the 2010 autumn decoration for her contribution to the enhancement of friendship between the Czech Republic and Japan.

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Caslavska receives Japanese order

Caslavska receives Japanese order

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Vera Caslavska, a gymnast from the former Czechoslovakia, addresses an award ceremony after receiving the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, from Japan at the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Prague on Dec. 7, 2010. Caslavska, a 68-year-old gold medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was awarded under the 2010 autumn decoration for her contribution to the enhancement of friendship between the Czech Republic and Japan.

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Kuwahara wins silver in men's horizontal bar

Kuwahara wins silver in men's horizontal bar

GUANGZHOU, China - Japanese gymnast Shun Kuwahara bites his silver medal on Nov. 17, 2010, at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, after finishing second in the men's horizontal bar.

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Uchimura wins 2nd straight gold at gymnastics worlds

Uchimura wins 2nd straight gold at gymnastics worlds

ROTTERDAM, Japan - Japan's Kohei Uchimura shows the victory sign after winning back-to-back men's all-round titles, the first time ever for a Japanese gymnast, at the world championships in Rotterdam on Oct. 22, 2010.

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Canadian gymnast with Japanese ancestry at world c'ships

Canadian gymnast with Japanese ancestry at world c'ships

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Kenneth Ikeda (L), a member of the Canadian gymnastic team whose parents are Japanese, talks with his father and coach Mitsugu Ikeda at the world gymnastic championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Oct. 18, 2010.

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Japan's gymnast Uchimura takes silver in men's all-around

Japan's gymnast Uchimura takes silver in men's all-around

BEIJING, China - Japan's gymnast Kohei Uchimura holds up the Japanese flag as he took the silver medal in the Beijing Olympic men's all-around competition on Aug. 14.

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Murata wins all-around silver in rhythmic gymnastics

Murata wins all-around silver in rhythmic gymnastics

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese rhythmic gymnast Yukari Murata (L) takes the silver in the individual all-around event at the Doha Asian Games on Dec. 10 after finishing runner-up to Kazakhstan's Aliya Yussupova (C). China's Xiao Yiming (R) took the bronze.

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Tomita arrives in Doha for Asian Games

Tomita arrives in Doha for Asian Games

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese gymnast Hiroyuki Tomita arrives at Doha international airport in Qatar to take part in the 15th Asian Games which will open on Dec. 1.

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Murata wins 5th straight national title

Murata wins 5th straight national title

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Japanese rhythmic gymnast Yukari Murata performs in the ribbon discipline at the national championships at Hyogo prefectural gymnasium on Nov. 5. She won her record-tying fifth all-around title by collecting a total of 56.750 points.

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Japan Olympic gymnasts practice

Japan Olympic gymnasts practice

ATHENS, Greece - Japanese gymnast Takehiro Kashima, who will try for Japan's first gold medal in pommel horse, practices at the competition site in Athens Aug. 11.

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Gymnast Tsukahara finds horizontal bar out of reach

Gymnast Tsukahara finds horizontal bar out of reach

SYDNEY, Australia - Highly touted Naoya Tsukahara finds the horizontal bar just out of reach as he performs in the gymnastics apparatus finals at Sydney Super Dome on Sept. 25. The Japanese ace took a tumble and scored only 8.825 to finish in eighth place.

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Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, waves after his retirement press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2022.

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Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, prepares to speak at his retirement press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2022.

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Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, speaks at his retirement press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2022.

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Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, speaks at his retirement press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2022.

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Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, speaks at his retirement press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2022.

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Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, speaks at the start of a retirement press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2022.

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Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Uchimura at retirement press conference

Japanese artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a two-time Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, speaks at the start of a retirement press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2022.

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Gymnastics: Murakami at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Murakami at retirement press conference

Japanese gymnast Mai Murakami is pictured after holding a press conference on her retirement in Yokohama on Nov. 8, 2021. She claimed the bronze medal in the floor exercise at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

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Gymnastics: Murakami at retirement press conference

Gymnastics: Murakami at retirement press conference

Japanese gymnast Mai Murakami speaks at a press conference on her retirement in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Nov. 8, 2021. She claimed the bronze medal in the floor exercise at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

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Gymnastics: World championships

Gymnastics: World championships

Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura practices at the venue of the world gymnastics championships in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2021, a day ahead of its opening.

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Gymnastics: World championships

Gymnastics: World championships

Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura practices at the venue of the world gymnastics championships in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2021, a day ahead of its opening.

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Gymnastics: World championships

Gymnastics: World championships

Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura practices at the venue of the world gymnastics championships in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2021, a day ahead of its opening.

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Gymnastics: Takeru Kitazono

Gymnastics: Takeru Kitazono

Japanese gymnast Takeru Kitazono speaks at a press conference on Sept. 22, 2021, in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, ahead of the national senior gymnastics championships starting the following day in the northeastern Japan city.

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Gymnastics: Kohei Uchimura

Gymnastics: Kohei Uchimura

Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura speaks at a press conference on Sept. 22, 2021, in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, ahead of the national senior gymnastics championships starting the following day in the northeastern Japan city.

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