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Ceremony opens with video that looked back on the 17 days of events and competition; Japan Crown Prince makes appearance in stands ... ( read original story ...)

The International Olympic Commitee pressed ahead with staging the Games despite widespread calls for them to be cancelled. ( read original story ...)

It is ‘The IOC Presents the 2020 Olympics Live From Tokyo on NBC, minus Japanese people,’” said Peter Williams, a media entrepreneur who has lived here for 30 years. And these Olympics will prompt ... ( read original story ...)

As a matter of fact, they did something the previous LDP administration had not dared to do: To allow Japan's national carrier JAL, with its astronomical debt of ¥2.322tril yen and a share face value ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Olympics will be remembered for the spotlight they shone on mental health, when even the toughest athletes opened up on the need to care for more than limbs and ligaments. ( read original story ...)

Country music isn’t something you’d expect to hear coming from a small bar in Tokyo. But it’s music like this Takeshi Yoshino has been listening to since he was in high school. ( read original story ...)

The official price tag for the Tokyo Olympics in $15.4 billion, which a University of Oxford study says is the most expensive on record. What else could those billions buy? The ballpark figure for ... ( read original story ...)

The 7-Elevens in Japan are seemingly everywhere and offer a plethora of food options that aren't available in the U.S. Why is everything so different? ( read original story ...)

Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia won bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics 2021, beating Kazakhstan's Daulet Niyazbekov 8-0 in the 65kg wrestling event on Saturday, August 7, 2021. ( read original story ...)

Young pitchers from Nippon Professional Baseball in the biggest game of their careers led Japan to a first Olympic gold medal in the sport with a 2-0 win over the United States on Saturday. ( read original story ...)

Japan won the Olympic gold medal in baseball at the Tokyo Games on Saturday by beating the United States 2-0. The U.S. claimed the silver medal and the Dominican Republic took bronze earlier on ... ( read original story ...)

Russian Abdulrashid Sadulaev beat American Kyle Snyder 6-3 in the men's Olympic freestyle heavyweight gold medal bout on Saturday in an absorbing contest between two Rio 2016 champions. ( read original story ...)

The story most often repeated — in Japan and beyond — is that Japanese winemaking started just 150 years ago with the introduction of European oenology. But I'd read in the Kikizake-shi textbook (like ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Dai-ichi Life Holdings will buy Australian banking group Westpac's life insurance business for about A$900 million ($665.5 million), the Nikkei reported on Friday. ( read original story ...)

The provincial government of Pangasinan is eyeing a $1-billion undertaking - Pangasinan Fish Farming (PFF) project - which will be established and operated ... ( read original story ...)

The Indian contingent at the Tokyo Olympics has got the required approval from Japanese government to leave the Games Village and travel to the Indian Embassy for a felicitation ceremony on Saturday ... ( read original story ...)