Japanese swim star Rikako Ikee reacts after a women’s 50-meter freestyle at a local race meet, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Tokyo. Ikee, who revealed in ...

INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - Like his famous namesake Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer Kosuke Hagino is hoping the Asian Games will be his springboard to bigger and better things. The 20-year-old ...

TOKYO, Japan, March 22. THE Japanese Swimming Federation today announced that it will move the site of the Japan Open from Tokyo to Osaka. The meet was scheduled from May 20-22 as final preparation ...

Ben Lecomte, a 50-year old Frenchman turned Texan, will slip into the water Sunday off the coast of Choshi, Japan, and start swimming. If all goes as planned, he won’t set foot on land for six months.

CHIBA, Japan, August 22. AFTER a blistering first day of competition that featured plenty of world-class times at the Japan International Swim Meet, the international field of talent returned with ...

Little-known Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi giggled politely at the suggestion that she might have become one of the stars of her home country’s Olympics in the absence of Naomi Osaka. She dismissed the ...

Japan’s Rikako Ikee reacts after winning the women’s 100m freestyle final during the Japan National Swimming Championships, which doubles as a qualifier event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, at the Tokyo ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The next swimming world championships were formally postponed for a second time Tuesday because of the COVID-19 pandemic and will now take place in 2023 in Japan. World ...

A professional swimmer set off on Tuesday to swim from Japan to San Francisco.Ben Lecomte wants to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte, 50, left from northeast of Tokyo ...

Tokyo — A Chinese woman who was swept out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach was rescued 37 hours later after drifting in a swimming ring more than 50 miles in the Pacific Ocean, officials said ...