Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara electrified the crowd in capturing Japan's first-ever Olympic gold medal in pairs figure skating on Feb. 16, staging a dramatic comeback at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter ...

World figure skating pairs champions Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany say they'll continue competing and will ...

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara have announced their retirement from figure skating, two months after winning the Olympic gold ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan won the pairs event at the Four Continents figure skating competition on Friday, recapturing the title they first took home two years ...

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara are going out on top, announcing their retirement from figure skating competition after becoming the first Japanese pairs’ team to win an Olympic medal — gold in Milan.

Shigeya Kihara, the last surviving original instructor of the first U.S. Army language school, which was founded just prior to World War II to teach Japanese to American soldiers, has died. He was 90.

In a historic and overdue first, this year, New Zealand’s pavilion will be taken over by a South Pacific islander who identifies as Fa’afafine, which is Sāmoa’s third gender. Sāmoan-Japanese artist ...

Yuki Kihara has chosen familiar wallpaper for our Zoom interview: a tropical beach, the curve of white sand fringed with palms, translucent shallows and a long blue horizon. One could easily assume it ...