Yuzuru Hanyu bibliography
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Japanese figure skater and two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu has written an autobiography series titled Blue Flames (蒼い炎, Aoi Honō) that consists of four volumes and has been sold with over 400,000 copies by June 2023. All royalties of the series were donated to his home rink Ice Rink Sendai [ja], which had been severely damaged after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[1] Beyond that, he has published various compilation and photo books in Japan in collaboration with renowned sports writers and photographers, of which multiple ones have made it to the Oricon top 10 charts of best-selling books.[2][3][4]
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In 2020, Hanyu's graduation thesis about the utilization of a so-called "wireless inertia sensor motion capture system" in the sport of figure skating was published in the Journal of Human Sciences at Waseda University, and was retrieved more than 100,000 times from the university's online repository.[5][6] Hanyu has also written a picture book titled Gift with illustrations by the famous mangaka group Clamp based on his own solo ice show production Gift at Tokyo Dome in 2023.[7]