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Next year’s men’s and women’s Olympic marathons will start at 6 a.m. local time to try to avoid the worst of Tokyo’s blazing summer heat, organisers said on Tuesday. Advertising The marathons had been ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Next year’s men’s and women’s Olympic marathons will start at 6 a.m. local time to try to avoid the worst of Tokyo’s blazing summer heat, organizers said on Tuesday. The ... ( read original story ...)

The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 officially run between 24 July and 9 August, but sporting action kicks off two days before the Opening Ceremony with preliminary women’s football matches, as well as group ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi speaks during a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 16, 2019. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo (AFP) - One week after an F-35A stealth fighter jet crashed off the northeastern coast of Japan, US and Japanese military vessels are struggling to find the wreckage and protect its valuable ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Japan’s Suntory Holdings, faced with a whisky crunch, is selling a rare mix sourced from around the world as premium whisky, aiming to elevate the status of young blends ... ( read original story ...)

Speaking to Sky News after Nissan and Honda both announced production cuts at their UK-based plants, Koji Tsuruoka said Japanese companies had been cutting back on investment in the UK amid the ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire has received a Platinum Supplier Award from Caterpillar for the seventh consecutive year. The award – Platinum Level Recertification in its Supplier Quality Excellence Process (SQEP) – ... ( read original story ...)

"I hope we can come to a very quick agreement with Japan over maybe some temporary ... provisions and hash out the many other issues that take longer in this area," Perdue told reporters in Washington ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka's former coach Sascha Bajin has been hired by Kristina Mladenovic. Bajin became the first recipient of the WTA Coach of the Year award in 2018 after helping Osaka to her maiden WTA title ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged Japan on Monday to do more to follow through on its intention of seeking cooperation with China rather than competition, warning that there was still weakness in their ... ( read original story ...)

The service, operated by the Kinki Bureau of Telecommunications in Osaka, will ultimately provide weather news and evacuation orders in several languages, and will allow foreign embassies to issue ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited the Fukushima nuclear plant, which sank into meltdowns after a tsunami eight years ago, in an effort to highlight revival and safety as the ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING — China and Japan have the opportunity to “take charge of the economic field” during a time of worldwide uncertainty, Japan’s foreign minister said Sunday, as trade pressures from ... ( read original story ...)

"I hope we can come to a very quick agreement with Japan over maybe some temporary ... provisions and hash out the many other issues that take longer in this area," Perdue told reporters in Washington ... ( read original story ...)

After notifying police, the team’s management had to break the news to the players ... International Friendship Hockey Tournament in Japan. The tournament’s values include friendship and ... ( read original story ...)