An 11-year-old Japanese ballet dancer won a top prize in the Youth America Grand Prix in Florida on Sunday.

On April 8, professional boxer Kenshiro Teraji, the WBC and WBA world light flyweight champion, will defend his title at the Ariake Arena.

The March 18 broadcast of "Table Tennis Japan! continued from the previous week with special guest Jun Mizutani's DEEP commentary on the fierce competition among Japanese players at the WTT Singapore Smash.

Sumo's Ozeki champion Takakeisho, who is pursuing promotion to the top rank of yokozuna, has started the March grand tournament with a loss.

Japanese judoka Ono Shohei, who won gold medals in two straight Olympics, says he will go to Britain on an instructor training program.

At the Snowboard World Championships, 19-year-old Tsubaki Miki lost in the first round of the final tournament in the women's parallel slalom and failed to win both parallel giant slalom events.

The Japan Sumo Association says two wrestlers will be promoted to the second-highest juryo division. One of them has become the fastest to reach the tier in decades.

Niiya Hitomi won the Houston Marathon in the US state of Texas on Sunday, with the second-fastest time on record for a Japanese woman.

Darvish Yu of the San Diego Padres in Major League Baseball says he will play for Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic next year.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Sena Irie won the gold medal in the women's featherweight boxing event. This is the first time for a Japanese athlete to win a medal in women's boxing.

In the semi-finals of the Men's Fencing Fleure Team at the Tokyo Olympics, Japan lost to France 42-45 and did not advance to the finals, moving on to the third place match.

Sekiwake Takayasu, who was absent from the first day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament due to a back injury, will start on the third day of the tournament on the 6th.