Female figure skater Mao Asada, who took silver at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and Kinoshita Group announced Thursday they will launch the Kinoshita Mao Academy in August with the aim of nurturing ...

Retired figure skater Mao Asada, who won silver for Japan at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, announced Thursday she is ...

Retired figure skater Mao Asada, who won silver for Japan at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, announces she is embarking ...

The school, "Kinoshita Mao Academy," will train around 10 children aged between 5 and 9 at a skating rink produced by Asada, ...

Preparation for the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July began at the newly built IG Arena, one of the biggest indoor venues ...

Opened in November as part of a project that involved 34-year-old Olympic silver medalist and three-time world champion Mao Asada, the completion of the year-round rink comes at a time when Japan ...

Mao Asada strikes a pose at the site where the "Mao Rink" skating center will be built in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on March 28, 2023. (Mainichi/Nao Goto) TOKYO -- Olympic figure skating silver medalist ...

Born early in the Heisei Era, three-time figure skating world champion Mao Asada became one of Japan's most prominent individuals on the international scene during her storied career, while also ...

U.S.'s Mirai Nagasu follows Japan's Midori Ito, Mao Asada to land high-risk jump — -- Mirai Nagasu, 24, sailed through the air with a 3-rotation jump at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang to ...

BOSTON, MA - APRIL 02: Mao Asada of Japan skates in the Ladies Free Skate on Day 6 of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2016 at TD Garden on April 2, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by ...

The news hit Japan and the skating world like a thunderbolt last Monday night when Mao Asada announced she was retiring from the sport. A true giant was departing. There was no other way to put it.