16. February 2015  
Tokyo, Japan  
Rhythmic Gymnastics

Japanese Rhythmic Gymnastic in 2015

Five years before the 2020 Olympic Games, which will take place in the Japanese capital Tokyo again after 56 years, NHK - Japan's only one public broadcaster - produced a current TV status report interesting insights into development and goals of JAPANESE RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS in the country.
In this feature story (48 min., in English) the ambitions of the Japanese gymnastics nation which ranked on 7th place in the group competition at the recent Olympic Games (2012)  and on 8th place the last Worlds (2014, Izmir). Japan's  best individual gymnast, Sakura Hayakawa, came on 16th in the all-around last year, but an individual apparatus final didn't reach reached no Japanese gymnast yet. Among all the 32 nations at the FIG World Championships in 2014 Japanese gymnasts ranked 11th in the team competition.

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Hiroko Yamasaki (JPN)

Since the Olympic debut of Rhythmic Gymnastics, 1984 in Los Angeles, so far only managed one Japanese woman among the 10 best of the all-arround final: Hiroko Yamasaki came on 8th Place, 31 years ago.

Today Hiroko Yamasaki is Japan's national coach for rhythmic gymnastics and is working hard on high-set goals, as she talked in this NHK TV report.

The NHK WORLD TV report document the enormous effort that takes the "land of the rising sun" to  establish further itself in the world of Graces front and ascend to the top.
Finally, Japan Gymnastics will present itself in 2020 to its own audience as a success nation.
But the NHK World TV"report proves that the Rhythmic Gymnastics is not only just a sport for girls and women...:
►► Rhythmic Gymnastics in Japan - 2015
       (NHK World TV, Jan 2015; 10.742)