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(Reuters) - World number one Dustin Johnson confirmed on Saturday he did not put his name forward for a spot on the U.S. team for this summer's Tokyo Olympics and will instead focus on the PGA Tour. ( read original story ...)

World No. 1 Dustin Johnson will not represent the red, white and blue in the Summer Games in Tokyo. Johnson said Saturday following his third round in the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass his ... ( read original story ...)

World A sauna in a museum? Welcome to Tokyo's teamLab. Posted . A wall of flower petals bursts into a thousand fragments. A huge ball levitates in the air turning from red to blue ... ( read original story ...)

NEARLY ONE YEAR into a global shutdown with nary a live fashion show or red carpet, tennis champions Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka drew a record viewership for their distinctly stylish Feb. 17 ... ( read original story ...)

While she has a fair bit of ground to cover to replace idol Serena Williams as the new queen of Slams, Naomi Osaka is undoubtedly the queen of many hearts in her native Japan and beyond through the ... ( read original story ...)

Veteran forward Yoshito Okubo extended his J-League first division scoring record to 190 on Saturday, netting the winner in Cerezo Os ... ( read original story ...)

Katie Vincent is headed to Tokyo. The 25-year-old canoe sprint athlete officially qualified for the 2021 Olympics on Friday after winning a race-off in the 200-metre C1 event against fellow Canadian ... ( read original story ...)

And to think that only a few days ago the Japanese champion had published a photo of her with pink hair, in homage to Sakura Haruno, one of the main characters of the famous manga Naruto ... ( read original story ...)

The United States and three of its closest Indo-Pacific partners committed to supplying up to a billion coronavirus vaccine doses across Asia by the end of 2022 on Friday at a meeting carefully ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan will not take part in China’s offer — accepted by the International Olympic Committee — to provide vaccines for “participants” in the postponed Tokyo Games and next year’s Beijing ... ( read original story ...)

Leaders of the United States, India, Australia and Japan agreed to pool financing, manufacturing and distribution capacity to send 1 billion coronavirus vaccines across Asia by the end of 2022, ... ( read original story ...)

An airborne parachute exercise this week in Japan was the largest in the history of the U.S.-Japanese alliance, the U.S. Air Force reported on Friday. ( read original story ...)

A retail investor buys shares in a small company, touts his position on social media and inspires a horde of followers to do the same. The stock price goes to the moon -- before crashing back to earth ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. President Joe Biden met leaders of Australia, India and Japan on Friday, a group central to his efforts to counter China's growing military and economic power, and said a free and open ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka's elder sister, Mari Osaka announced her retirement from tennis despite being aged only 24-years-old. Read more to know. ( read original story ...)

The Biden administration, under intense pressure to donate excess coronavirus vaccines to needy nations, is moving to address the global shortage in another way: by partnering with Japan, India and ... ( read original story ...)