Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person, following the death of 114-year-old Miyoko Hiroyasu, according to Japan's Ministry of ...

Japanese government officials and the International Olympic Committee are vehemently expressing that the Tokyo Olympics will go forward. That's despite a new report that indicates the government has ...

A new state of emergency was announced for Tokyo on Thursday. In the latest blow to a delayed and beleaguered Tokyo Olympics, officials on Thursday said a state of emergency had been declared due to ...

Pfizer and its partner, Germany's BioNTech, announced Thursday that they have agreed to donate vaccines to competitors and staff at the Tokyo Games, set to be held this summer despite ongoing concerns ...

TOKYO/ATHENS (Reuters) - The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday to 2021, the first such delay in the Games' 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked the world's last sporting ...

The report comes amid growing calls to cancel the games. Around 10,000 of the 80,000 volunteers who signed up to help at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have quit, according to public ...