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Paris Olympics: Rugby sevens

Takamasa Maruo of Japan is tackled by South African players in the second half of a Paris Olympic men's rugby sevens Pool A match on July 25, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

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Paris 2024 - Rugby Sevens - Japan v Ireland

Team Japan forward Takamasa Maruo (10) during the Rugby Sevens men’s Pool C match between Japan and Ireland at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France on July 24, 2024. Photo by Eliot Blondet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-RUGBY SEVENS (CN)

(230926) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Liu Luda (L, top) of China competes against Maruo Takamasa (R, top) of Japan during the Men's Bronze Medal Match of Rugby Sevens between China and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 26, 2023. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)

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Anai to hang up judo-gi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese judoka Takamasa Anai speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 28, 2013. The former world champion said he will draw the curtain on his career after competing in the men's under 100-kilogram category in the following day's All Japan Judo Championship at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan.

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Anai crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Czech Lukas Krpalek (upper) takes on Japan's Takamasa Anai during the round of 16 in the men's judo 100-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, at the ExCeL competition venue on Aug. 2, 2012. Krpalek beat Anai.

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Anai crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Takamasa Anai (R) is stunned after losing to Czech Lukas Krpalek in the round of 16 in the men's judo 100-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, at the ExCeL competition venue on Aug. 2, 2012.

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Anai crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Takamasa Anai (bottom) suffers a shock second-round defeat at the hands of Czech Lukas Krpalek (top) in the men's judo 100 kilograms at the London Olympics on Aug. 2, 2012.

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Anai crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Takamasa Anai (front) pictured after suffering a shock second-round defeat at the hands of Czech Lukas Krpalek in the men's judo 100 kilograms at the London Olympics on Aug. 2, 2012.

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Anai crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Czech Lukas Krpalek (upper) takes on Japan's Takamasa Anai during the round of 16 in the men's judo 100-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, at the ExCeL competition venue on Aug. 2, 2012. Anai lost to Krpalek.

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Anai crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Takamasa Anai (L) fights British James Austin during a first round match in the men's judo 100-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, at the ExCeL competition venue on Aug. 2, 2012. Anai beat Austin.

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Initiation ceremony in tsunami-hit area

ONAGAWA, Japan - Masanori Takahashi (R), president of seafood product maker Takamasa Co. in tsunami-hit Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, welcomes the company's newly hired employees (in the front row) during an initiation ceremony at the company on April 2, 2012. An estimated 800,000 people newly joined companies and government offices across Japan the same day, the first weekday of the country's new fiscal year.

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Grand Slam Tokyo judo meet

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Takamasa Anai (bottom), ranked first in the world in the 100-kilogram class, loses in the semifinals to South Korea's Hwang Hee Tae (top) on the final day of the three-day judo meet at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2011.

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World champion Anai wins in 100 kg of judo Grand Slam

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Takamasa Anai (L) beats Israel's Ariel Zeevi in the men's 100-kilogram final at the Grand Slam Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2010.

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Anai takes silver at Asian Games

GUANGZHOU, China - Takamasa Anai, one of the Japanese gold hopefuls in judo, walks off the competition site on Nov. 13, 2010, after taking the silver medal in the men's 100-kilogram match at the Asian Games in Guangzhou.

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Anai takes gold at world c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan wears the gold medal after winning the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010.

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan celebrates after defeating Henk Grol (back) of the Netherlands in the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010.

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai (L) competes with Henk Grol of the Netherlands during the 100-kilogram finals at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010. Anai won the gold medal at the event.

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan celebrates after winning the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010.

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan celebrates after defeating Henk Grol (back) of the Netherlands in the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010.

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Japan's Anai wins men's 100-kg bronze at judo worlds

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japan's Takamasa Anai (R) is photographed during a ceremony after winning the men's 100-kilogram bronze at the judo world championships in Rotterdam on Aug. 30, 2009, along with Kazakhstan's Maxim Rakov (2nd from R), Henk Grol of the Netherlands (L) and Egypt's Ramadan Darwish of Egypt. Japanese men will come home for the first time without winning a gold medal at the worlds with only Anai's third-place and a silver medal for Hiroaki Hiraoka.

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Japan's Anai takes bronze in men's 100-kg at judo worlds

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japan's Takamasa Anai (top) beats Ukrainian Artem Bloshenko by ippon at men's 100-kilogram event at a judo world championships in Rotterdam on Aug. 30, 2009. Japanese men will come home without having won a gold medal for the first time at the worlds with only Anai's third-place and a silver medal for Hiroaki Hiraoka.

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Diary on Takamatsuzuka excavation disclosed

OSAKA, Japan - Takamasa Shimada, a 56-year-old man who was involved in research on murals at the Takamatsuzuka tomb in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, in 1972 as a college student, on March 21 shows a diary he kept at the time where he expressed premonition that the mural might be damaged one day. ''The murals are painted on plaster and I feel worried about their preservation,'' Shimada wrote in the diary he kept 30 years earlier. The tomb was accidentally damaged during preservation work in 2002.

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Nagoya teen begins junior high classes with wheelchair dog

NAGOYA, Japan - Takamasa Wada, a 13-year-old disabled at Hibitsu Junior High School in Nagoya's Nakamura Ward, attends a class on Sept. 19 with his wheelchair dog, trained to aid those with only upper-body mobility. Wada, who uses a wheelchair, is the second youngster among Japanese primary and lower secondary school students to have a helper dog.

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Nagoya teen begins junior high classes with wheelchair dog

NAGOYA, Japan - Takamasa Wada, a 13-year-old disabled at Hibitsu Junior High School in Nagoya's Nakamura Ward, attends a class on Sept. 19 with his wheelchair dog, trained to aid those with only upper-body mobility. Wada, who uses a wheelchair, is the second youngster among Japanese primary and lower secondary school students to have a helper dog. (Kyodo)

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Seiden Rg Veda (1992)

Film Poster Film: Seiden Rg Veda (1991) Director: Hiroyuki Ebata, Takamasa Ikegami 02 May 1992 Date: 02 May 1992

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(2) Nagoya teen begins junior high classes with wheelchair dog

NAGOYA, Japan - Takamasa Wada, a 13-year-old disabled at Hibitsu Junior High School in Nagoya's Nakamura Ward, attends a class on Sept. 19 with his wheelchair dog, trained to aid those with only upper-body mobility. Wada, who uses a wheelchair, is the second youngster among Japanese primary and lower secondary school students to have a helper dog. (Kyodo)

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Diary on Takamatsuzuka excavation disclosed

OSAKA, Japan - Takamasa Shimada, a 56-year-old man who was involved in research on murals at the Takamatsuzuka tomb in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, in 1972 as a college student, on March 21 shows a diary he kept at the time where he expressed premonition that the mural might be damaged one day. ''The murals are painted on plaster and I feel worried about their preservation,'' Shimada wrote in the diary he kept 30 years earlier. The tomb was accidentally damaged during preservation work in 2002. (Kyodo)

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan celebrates after winning the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai (L) competes with Henk Grol of the Netherlands during the 100-kilogram finals at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010. Anai won the gold medal at the event. (Kyodo)

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Anai takes gold at world c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan wears the gold medal after winning the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan celebrates after defeating Henk Grol (back) of the Netherlands in the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Anai takes gold at world judo c'ships

TOKYO, Japan - Takamasa Anai of Japan celebrates after defeating Henk Grol (back) of the Netherlands in the 100-kilogram final at the World Judo Championship in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Initiation ceremony in tsunami-hit area

ONAGAWA, Japan - Masanori Takahashi (R), president of seafood product maker Takamasa Co. in tsunami-hit Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, welcomes the company's newly hired employees (in the front row) during an initiation ceremony at the company on April 2, 2012. An estimated 800,000 people newly joined companies and government offices across Japan the same day, the first weekday of the country's new fiscal year. (Kyodo)

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World champion Anai wins in 100 kg of judo Grand Slam

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Takamasa Anai (L) beats Israel's Ariel Zeevi in the men's 100-kilogram final at the Grand Slam Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Grand Slam Tokyo judo meet

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Takamasa Anai (bottom), ranked first in the world in the 100-kilogram class, loses in the semifinals to South Korea's Hwang Hee Tae (top) on the final day of the three-day judo meet at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Anai takes silver at Asian Games

GUANGZHOU, China - Takamasa Anai, one of the Japanese gold hopefuls in judo, walks off the competition site on Nov. 13, 2010, after taking the silver medal in the men's 100-kilogram match at the Asian Games in Guangzhou. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Anai wins men's 100-kg bronze at judo worlds

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japan's Takamasa Anai (R) is photographed during a ceremony after winning the men's 100-kilogram bronze at the judo world championships in Rotterdam on Aug. 30, 2009, along with Kazakhstan's Maxim Rakov (2nd from R), Henk Grol of the Netherlands (L) and Egypt's Ramadan Darwish of Egypt. Japanese men will come home for the first time without winning a gold medal at the worlds with only Anai's third-place and a silver medal for Hiroaki Hiraoka. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Anai takes bronze in men's 100-kg at judo worlds

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japan's Takamasa Anai (top) beats Ukrainian Artem Bloshenko by ippon at men's 100-kilogram event at a judo world championships in Rotterdam on Aug. 30, 2009. Japanese men will come home without having won a gold medal for the first time at the worlds with only Anai's third-place and a silver medal for Hiroaki Hiraoka. (Kyodo)