Japan, which arguably boasts the best skateboarders in the world, shows them off to home crowds this week during a World ...

Words by Josh Zickert Several months prior to the April 2025 Sakura Sake Tour Patrik Wallner had linked me up with Japan’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where ...

Yuto Horigome of Japan has retained his Olympic title in men’s street skateboarding in Paris, clinching the top of the podium on his last trick in a tense final. Team USA’s Jagger Eaton upgraded his ...

For the second straight Olympics, Japan led the women's skateboard street field. Teenagers Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama won gold and silver respectively.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Skateboarding’s debut on the Olympic stage in Tokyo has spurred many skaters to ask one very simple question: will this finally mean more skate parks across Japan? Japan has won ...

Skateboarding Internet sensation, Madars Apse and Skate Tales recently touched down in Japan to link up with Kento Yoshioka—who is better known as Japanese Super Rat—a true force in the country’s ...

TOKOROZAWA, Japan — Ryusei Ouchi takes a deep breath as he uses his cane to feel out the edge of the 3-meter-high ramp, shuffles to the edge and then drops in. Like all skateboarders, the rush of air, ...

TOKYO, July 26 (Reuters) - Japanese 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya clinched the Olympic title in the women's street skateboarding competition on Monday, shedding tears of happiness after nailing her final ...