Today, Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu became the first man since 1952 to defend a Winter Olympics single figure skating gold medal with victory in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. This amazing achievement made me curious about Japan's past winter games history, so I decided to take a closer look. Whilst snow filled winters have always been part of Japanese life, this has not been as widely reflected in their winter sporting achievements as one might expect. In 1928 Japan