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Dozens of Japanese, American and French troops landed amid pouring rain from a CH-47 transport helicopter onto a grassy field at a training area in southern Japan, part of Saturday's joint scenario of ... ( read original story ...)

Britain's Alex Yee finishes fourth in the opening round of the 2021 World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, with Tom Bishop 22nd and Jonny Brownlee 23rd. ( read original story ...)

Morgan Pearson, a 27-year-old University of Colorado graduate who began competing as an elite triathlete in 2018, today qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team with a bronze-medal ... ( read original story ...)

The Swiss tennis great has called on organisers to end the uncertainty around the Games amid Covid-19 ... ( read original story ...)

Everything you need to know about the Indian variant Nearly 70% of Japan's population do not want the Tokyo Olympic Games to go ahead, according to current polls. And, for the first time, Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

Tennis great Roger Federer has called on Olympics organizers to end the uncertainty around the Tokyo Games, with the 20-times Grand Slam winner saying he was still in two minds whether to compete. ( read original story ...)

If there was any doubt that the United States is stacked when it comes to elite women’s Olympic-distance triathlon racing, all the proof came at today’s World Triathlon Championship Series Yokohama ... ( read original story ...)

A panel of experts has begun talks on addressing the shortage of heirs to the Japanese imperial throne, as a poll showed that four in five members of the public are comfortable with the idea of women ... ( read original story ...)

Following a one-off World Championship in Hamburg in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Triathlon Championship Series returns with a full calendar of events for 2021. This year’s series ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Olympics are now just over two months away and calls to ditch the Games in the face of the pandemic are getting louder by the day. So why isn't Japan talking about cancelling the Games? The ... ( read original story ...)

The death of a Sri Lankan woman detained at a central Japan immigration facility has been in the spotlight as parliament debates a controversial bill to revise the immigration law that is feared will ... ( read original story ...)

Danny Valencia ducked out of the scorching Arizona sun, reached into a cooler to grab an ice-cold drink and took a seat on the bench. The former Major League Baseball player savored the sweat dripping ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has expanded their state of emergency, which already included Tokyo, to try and slow the spread of COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)

China. Its Yokohama Industrial Products-Hangzhou Co. Ltd. business will invest nearly $12 million in the project in China's Zhejiang Province. Production for spiral wire hoses, mainly used in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has declared a state of emergency in three more prefectures hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday, a surprise move that reflects growing ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government remains adamant that the games will proceed as planned, even as local governments and protestors express rising concern about hosting the event during the pandemic. ( read original story ...)