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...
Announcing his choice to quit the Olympics without spectators, "It's a decision I didn't make lightly," said international tennis player Nick Kyrgios.
“My goal of course is to fight for a medal,” Calderano said. “There has been a lot of uncertainty in the last year or so. I’m...
Sapporo is hosting the Olympic marathons and walking races. The city is no stranger to the Olympics. In 1972 it staged the first Winter Games in...
“This is a race between the spread of the Delta variant and the vaccine rollout”, said Yasutoshi Nishimura, key decision maker in COVID-19 prevention policymaking.
“If the Games can be a time where people can see how much effort the athletes have put in and collectively have the courage to move...
“The competition was so special and so fun for me. During skating it was like skating inside a dream,” Miyahara recalled.
According to the JASDF, they will be using smoke in five colors ー blue, yellow, black, green, and red ー to depict the interlaced rings symbolizing...
A unique challenge for a unique set of the Games. Find out how Japan is expanding in a range of technologies to improve the experience of...
Four sports ー gymnastics, judo, swimming and wrestling ー have provided the vast majority of the nation’s top-three finishes in Olympic competitions.
The first Japanese to win a medal in canoe slalom hopes to repeat his success for the host country.
As restrictions and quarantine measures for entering Japan are getting stricter, this is the experience of one JAPAN Forward writer upon recently returning to Japan from...