2024 Olympics

Recently, the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in South Korea announced that it has completed the public recruitment for the strategic project nurturing plan for the 2025-2026 period and has ultimately selected the associations of badminton, shooting, swimming, archery, and fencing as recipients of financial support.

At the 2025 Badminton Asia Championships mixed doubles final, the veteran Hong Kong team of Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet defeated the Japanese pair Midorikawa Hiroki and Saito Natsu with a score of 2-1 to win the championship.

On April 10, the Japan Badminton Association officially announced that women’s doubles player Sakuramoto Ayako voluntarily quit the national team’s women’s doubles position.

This week, Japanese badminton star Shida Chiharu, who is currently in Ningbo, Zhejiang, participating in the 2025 Badminton Asia Championships, posted on social media that she has been harassed by a stalker every time she competes in China for the past year and a half, and called for some extreme fans to immediately stop stalking and similar behaviors.