Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, the 18-year-old who is already an early favorite to medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, has been diagnosed with leukemia. Ikee announced the news via Twitter on ...

A select group of 13 Australian breaststrokers, under the guidance of two-time Olympic head coach Leigh Nugent, have dived head-first into one of the swimming’s hottest melting pots in Japan this week ...

With the Olympics just months away, Norimasa Hirai will retire as chairman of the Japan Swimming Federation. According to Yahoo Japan, Hirai’s retirement was approved by the Japanese swimming ...

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 ...

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee reacts after competing in a 50-meter freestyle race at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center on August 29, 2020. (Photo by - / JAPAN POOL / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 2011, Japan experienced the strongest earthquake ever recorded in its history with more than 15,000 casualties. The great Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of ...