Japanese women snap 24-year losing run
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Japan's women on Monday reached the team badminton final for only the second time in Asian Games history with a solid 3-0 win over Singapore.
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Britain's women continue to outshine the men in Osaka.
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Japan claimed gold in the women&#39;s marathon Sunday. Battling extreme heat and a difficult 42.195 kilometer course through historic Athens, Mizuki Noguchi passed the finish line in two hours, 26.
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Japan's top women wrestlers celebrated the start of the 2008 Olympic year by plunging into the icy depths of Tokyo Bay in an extreme training exercise.
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ST. PAUL - Not since proper ladies began skating for titles in 1914 has there been a night like this. Three of the top four finishers here, including champion Mirai Nagasu, aren't old enough to go to the world championships in Sweden. And the woman who ruled the planet just two years ago had the worst performance by a reigning ...
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TOKYO - Nearly 64 percent of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s participating in a survey said they've been groped on trains, subways or at transit stations in Tokyo, according to a news report Tuesday.
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DENPASAR, Indonesia  - Svetlana Kuznetsova began   her quest for a third Bali International title on Wednesday   with a comprehensive 6-1 6-2 defeat of 18-year-old Erika Takao   of Japan.
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.
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Chicago - She won early and often, and often by overwhelming margins. She won on four continents - in Australia, Sweden and Japan and in six of the 50 United States.
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Mizuki Noguchi won the women&#39;s marathon at the Athens Games, holding off world champion Catherine Ndereba of Kenya to earn Japan the title for the second straight Olympics.
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It wasn't even close. In the final women's event of the 2008 Reebok Boston Indoor Games, Ethiopian Meseret Defar won the 2-mile in stunning fashion.
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The birth of Princess Kiko's son ensures the continuation of the royal line. But the news shows how far women still have to go, even in modern Japan
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ATHENS, Greece - Mizuki Noguchi of Japan held on for the gold and American Deena Kastor used a late burst for a stunning bronze medal finish Sunday night in the Olympic marathon. Kastor's third place gave the United States its first marathon medal since Joan Benoit's gold in Los Angeles 20 years ago...
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Aya Miyama her second goal of the game off an outstanding free kick with five seconds left, rallying Japan to a 2-2 tie against England on Tuesday in the Women's World Cup.
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Japanese women who ride congested commuter trains are taking their fight against gropers into their own hands  -  with a little help from technology, that is
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Finally, it's been knocked off the books. The American women completed a sweep of the 800-meter freestyle relay with a dominating performance at the Olympic pool Wednesday night, taking down the oldest - and ...
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Japan&#39;s Yoko Shibui overcame a run-in with an official to win the Berlin Marathon on Sunday in a race-record 2 hours, 19 minutes, 41 seconds, the fourth-best time for a woman at the distance.