Kohei Uchimura
December 08, 2012
It's easy to tell which notables made the biggest impression in Japan over the past year: Their faces end up on a wooden paddle.
November 27, 2012
Olympic champions and a Nobel Prize laureate were among the “people of the year” in Japan featured in Mataro Doll Ltd.'s annual doll exhibition in Tokyo's Ueno district on...
September 14, 2012
Gymnast Kohei Uchimura made headlines this summer when he took the gold medal in the all-around competition at the London Games.
August 23, 2012
Olympic gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura has experienced the darker side of celebrity after complaining of a schoolgirl "stalker," local media reported on Aug. 23.
August 20, 2012
Japan's 71 Olympic medalists received a hero's welcome as they rode through the streets of Tokyo's Ginza district on Aug. 20, being greeted by a crowd of about 500,000...
August 03, 2012
The Summer Olympics always fall in a leap year, and people more or less give away their ages when they mention their earliest Olympic memories. For me, it is the Tokyo Olympics ...
August 02, 2012
Boisterous cheering from his biggest fan helped Kohei Uchimura take the gold medal on Aug. 1 in the men's gymnastics all-around final at the London Olympics.
August 02, 2012
LONDON--Four years after letting the title slip through his fingers, Japan's Kohei Uchimura finally won the Olympic gold medal he dreamed of to go with his three world crowns...
July 31, 2012
LONDON -- China's gymnasts stormed to the men's team gold at the Olympics on July 30 while Japan lodged a last-gasp appeal to walk away with silver ahead of Britain on a...
July 10, 2012
Japan’s gymnastics ace Kohei Uchimura got his start at an early age.
May 22, 2012
When Kohei Uchimura imagines himself collecting a gold medal at the London Olympics, he thinks about collecting one for the team.
December 19, 2011
Kohei Uchimura, Japan's ace gymnast and three-time world champion, has secured his ticket to next year's London Olympics, months ahead of his rivals.
October 17, 2011
Kohei Uchimura clinched his fourth medal at the World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo on Oct. 16, winning the bronze in the high bar event with a score of 16.333.
October 15, 2011
It was a case of another day, another gold medal for Japan's Kohei Uchimura at the world gymnastics championships on Oct. 15.
October 15, 2011
Kohei Uchimura flashed his signature sly smile after sticking his landing on the high bar at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Oct. 14 to become the first gymnast to win the...
October 14, 2011
Japan ace Kohei Uchimura won an unprecedented third straight men's individual all-around gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Oct....
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