Tokyo 2020 Announces Aquatics Schedule

Following an agreement with the IOC and FINA, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has announced the competition schedule for all of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic aquatics events. Swimming events will be held ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Olympics committee to recruit 80K volunteers

The organizing committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Wednesday announced they were ... according to a statement by the committee, reports Efe news. The number of volunteers wanted tops the Rio 2016 ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo battles rats as iconic market shuts

The 23-hectare (57-acre) market near Tokyo’s swanky Ginza district is home to “not thousands but tens of thousands” of rats, attracted by fish offcuts and the market’s maze of sewers, according to Tat... ( read original story ...)

Japan wants end to commercial whaling ban

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil -- Japan proposed an end to a decades-old ban on commercial whaling at an international conference Monday, arguing there is no longer a scientific reason for what was supposed to ... ( read original story ...)