To fend off a future in which respect for human freedom and dignity has been destroyed, it is absolutely essential that we make the Tokyo Games...
“It was a shame that the media could not see what a safe and wonderful place Fukushima is.” ー U.S. softball team coach Ken Eriksen.
Lee made history at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre by being the first gymnast of Asian descent to win the women’s all-around.
The surge has the attention of local and national officials who hope current measures will help bring the number of infections down, while they also seek...
Horigome made history by becoming the first medalist in the new Olympic sport.
As of July 22, Tokyo 2020 organizers reported 87 COVID-19 infections among people connected with the Olympics since the start of the month.
How are people in Japan planning to watch the Olympic Games? JAPAN Forward hit the streets to find out.
China’s human rights violations and nuclear threat bring back memories of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that sparked the 1980 Moscow...
“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...
The world put faith in Japan’s COVID-19 countermeasures and its ability to prepare. To host an Olympics with no spectators is an embarrassing catastrophe for the...