HIGASHINO Arisa

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She began playing alongside her mixed doubles partner Yuta Watanabe in 2012. "We've been working together since we were in junior high school, but in junior high school and high school, even if we didn't talk too much, we won the tournaments to some extent. But we didn't talk much. However, once we joined the same club and started talking about various things, I feel that I really became friends with Yuta. Until then, there was something that I was always concerned about. However, although Yuta is younger, he is very reliable. He always listens and he is very kind." (news, 03 Feb 2022)

She and Yuta Watanabe became the first badminton players representing Japan to win an Olympic medal in mixed doubles by claiming bronze at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 Feb 2022; news, 03 Feb 2022)

She and Yuta Watanabe became the first Japanese badminton players to finish on the podium in mixed doubles at the world championships by claiming bronze at the 2019 edition of the tournament in Basel, Switzerland. They then became the first Japanese pair to win a silver medal when they finished in second place in 2021 in Huelva, Spain. (SportsDeskOnline, 23 Jan 2023)

She and Yuta Watanabe became the first Japanese badminton players to win the mixed doubles event at the All England Open following their victory at the 2018 edition in Birmingham, England. (SportsDeskOnline, 22 Sep 2020; sankei, 15 Jul 2019)