Asian Games: Japan gets 3 karate golds ahead of 2020 Olympic debut

Japan clinched three gold medals in karate at the Asian Games on Saturday, providing a great boon for the martial art ahead of its debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.Kiyo Shimizu and Ryo Kiyuna won their respective women's and men's karate kata event golds, while Ayumi Uekusa captured the title in the women's kumite over 68-kilogram category.Shimizu defeated Macau's Sou Soi Lam 5-0 to give Japan's women a gold medal in the discipline for the seventh straight time since the sport was added to the continental games' program in 1994 in Hiroshima."This is a tournament like the Olympic Games, and …READ FULL ARTICLE