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...
Team Japan had 338 athletes at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and the last time Tokyo hosted the Olympics in 1964 there were a total...
Announcing his choice to quit the Olympics without spectators, "It's a decision I didn't make lightly," said international tennis player Nick Kyrgios.
Just weeks after announcing that crowds of up to 10,000 or 50% of venue capacity would be allowed at Olympic venues, the latest announcement reverses policy.
“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.
Straight out of a health-related break, the Tokyo governor, with a 64% approval rating, did the rounds on the very last day of campaigning.
“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...
Protesters ignore Major League Baseball, Wimbledon, and the Euro 2020 soccer tournament, which are all happening in the U.S. and the U.K, despite their higher number...
"I feel a great responsibility being appointed captain of the Japanese delegation to the Olympics held in our own nation.”
Matsuzakaya, the prestigious Tokyo department store, brought to the table banners, themed goods and stickers to commemorate the birth of the twin giant pandas.
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion and four-time Olympian elevates the level of competition in every tennis tournament she plays in.
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...