North Korea, which boycotted the 1988 Seoul Games, became the first nation to announce it will skip the upcoming Olympics amidst the global pandemic.
The 2020 Games will be the "Reconstruction Olympics and Paralympics," and organizers and JOC officials have repeated that message since the IOC awarded the Games to...
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Committee meets on February 12 after hundreds of volunteers quit, and thousands call the host city government to denounce Yoshiro Mori’s comment.
The retired manager and second baseman had a memorable two-year stint with the Yomiuri Giants in the mid-1970s.
In contemporary times, Japan is teeming with a rich sporting culture. Options are aplenty for participants and spectators. And with a wide array of...
“Nobody knows anything.” That was the late screenwriter and novelist William Goldman’s assessment of Hollywood many years ago. Some might even call it...
It was in the works, but by the evening of Tuesday, March 24 (JST), the decision was official: the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics...
The Olympic torch “relay” kicked off in Athens on March 12, held for the first time in history without spectators, but debates intensify over whether...
Japan’s Minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Seiko Hashimoto, said on Wednesday, February 26, that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) gave assurances they were...
In the last two months of 2019, two South Korean complaints — allegedly based on the period during which Korea was under Japanese control (1910-1945) —...
The surprise decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to relocate the marathon and race walking events of the 2020 Olympic Games from host city Tokyo...