On the first full day of competition at the Tokyo Olympics, Yang won the 10-meter air rifle category in the sport of shooting.
“This might be the last chance I get to see a glimpse of the Olympics in my home country, so I came here,” says Chiyoko Takasaki,...
"I am privileged that my job is to make people laugh, and I shouldn’t make people feel uncomfortable with what I say,” said comedian Kentaro Kobayashi,...
As of July 22, Tokyo 2020 organizers reported 87 COVID-19 infections among people connected with the Olympics since the start of the month.
“It’s a face that makes us think about our existence” said the artist, Haruka Kojin. And overcoming a year’s postponement due to the pandemic, it’s part...
How are people in Japan planning to watch the Olympic Games? JAPAN Forward hit the streets to find out.
Do you love sports - or any kind of movement? This exhibit shares great insights into the bodies that produce what the organizers call that amazing...
“I am proud to say that I am Olympian, and I am ready.” ーGrace Lau
“Sports have the power to bring people together,” says Inoue. “The Olympics will go ahead as planned, and all we can do is our utmost to...
Leading Japan’s TV coverage of the Tokyo Games, NHK plans to air more than 1,200 hours of broadcasting across five channels.
The world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, calculates that, if 10,000 spectators observed appropriate measures in the National Stadium, there would effectively be zero new infection. At least...
Many journalists are asking why is the press restricted, even after the 14-day quarantine period?