Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto emerges as potential successor to Mori.
Mori's decision appears to be an acknowledgement of the risk that continued turmoil would negatively impact the remaining preparations for this summer's Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic...
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.
Japanese Olympic Committee chief Yoshiro Mori apologizes for saying women talk a lot. The Japanese public may not be so forgiving.
The retired manager and second baseman had a memorable two-year stint with the Yomiuri Giants in the mid-1970s.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s choice of Nobuo Kishi as defense minister has belied expectations that he would be more accommodating to China than was his predecessor...
“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 International Olympic Committee (IOC) reiterated its commitment to holding the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics as scheduled, after stakeholders held a telephone conference in...
Tokyo is canceling several major events in the next few weeks, as China’s novel coronavirus contagion spreads to Japan and more than 20 other countries....