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Japan Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto emerged as a candidate to lead the Tokyo Olympics organising committee, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday, after ex-prime minister Yoshiro Mori resigned ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto - who is named after the Olympic flame and competed in seven Games - is the preferred candidate to take over the Tokyo 2020 organising committee after her ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto emerged as a candidate to lead the Tokyo Olympics organising committee, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday, after ex-prime minister Yoshiro Mori resigned ... ( read original story ...)

Williams and Osaka will play for the second time at a Grand Slam. Plus, Novak Djokovic faces an unlikely semifinal opponent: a 27-year-old in his first Grand Slam main draw. ( read original story ...)

A quick look at the Australian Open: LOOKAHEAD TO THURSDAY. Naomi Osaka has won 19 consecutive matches but none of those wins came against Serena Wil ... ( read original story ...)

Japan launched its coronavirus vaccination programme on Wednesday, five months ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, as the World Health Organization reported a fall in new cases around the world. The same day ... ( read original story ...)

Months after other major economies, Japan began giving the first coronavirus vaccines to front-line health workers Wednesday. Many are wondering if the campaign will reach ... ( read original story ...)

Those female observers can't speak during the meetings, but can submit opinions separately to the secretariat office, the daily newspaper Nikkei reported. ( read original story ...)

The Games are due to begin in July but Shimane prefecture says it might pull out of the prestigious pre-Games event ... ( read original story ...)

Shogi prodigy Sota Fujii, 18, withdrew from his high school, the Nagoya University Affiliated Upper Secondary School, at the end of January, ... ( read original story ...)

A local man in his 40s who was confirmed infected with the coronavirus and convalesced at home as per local government requirements died o ... ( read original story ...)

After a sexism row sparked by Tokyo Olympics chief's saying women talked too much at meetings, Japan's ruling party wants women at key meetings - but only if they don't talk. The ruling Liberal ... ( read original story ...)

Williams and Osaka will face off during normal waking hours in an Australian Open semifinals that's been described as a Brady-Mahomes-like showdown. ( read original story ...)

Japan's first coronavirus shots were given to health workers Wednesday, beginning the vaccination campaign considered crucial to holding the already delayed Tokyo Olympics. ( read original story ...)

Japan rolls out its COVID-19 vaccination campaign Wednesday after the government gave belated first approval to a shot co-developed by Pfizer Inc. that the U.S. and many ... ( read original story ...)

Japan launched its COVID-19 inoculation drive on Wednesday by administering Pfizer Inc's vaccine shots to Tokyo hospital workers, TV footage showed, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga aims to defy the ... ( read original story ...)