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IOC President Thomas Bach has canceled a trip to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday in a statement. ( read original story ...)

Argument: What the United States Wants From Japan in... When Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga became the first foreign leader to visit U.S. President Joe Biden in the White House last month, ... ( read original story ...)

IOC president Thomas Bach has canceled a trip to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday in a statement. ( read original story ...)

A petition to cancel the Tokyo Olympics reached 300,000 signatures online in three days amid public opposition in Japan to holding the Summer Games in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori has doubts about whether the IOC and local organizers are doing enough to plan for a worst-case scenario of “hundreds” or “thousands” of coronavirus cases at the ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka is conflicted over whether the Tokyo Olympics should be held amid the coronavirus pandemic. The second-ranked tennis player, who represents Japan, was asked about the games at the Italian ... ( read original story ...)

Fake cheers, empty seats and the sound of pounding feet: welcome to the Covid-era Tokyo Olympics, which Japan seems determined to hold at all costs. ( read original story ...)

WORLD number two player Naomi Osaka of Japan said staging the Olympic Games should remain a topic of discussion as long as the subject was “making people very uncomfortable.” — NAOMI OSAKA FB PAGE ... ( read original story ...)

IOC President Thomas Bach has canceled a trip to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday in a statement. Bach was to visit ... ( read original story ...)

Hiroaki Nakanishi has been forced to step down as chair of Japan’s Keidanren business lobby after a recurrence of cancer, removing a powerful reformist voice from the top of corporate Japan. The loss ... ( read original story ...)

Toby Truscott of PageGroup's Michael Page says business sentiment has remained relatively strong in Japan despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the state of emergency in some parts of the country. ( read original story ...)

International Olympic officials, Tokyo planners and Suga himself have insisted the Games will go on in "a safe and secure" way. ( read original story ...)

Examples of typical colliding molecular clouds (represented by the blue color and yellow contours) forming star clusters discovered by ... ( read original story ...)

Preparations for Tokyo Olympics have suffered another setback after a poll found that nearly 60% of people in Japan want them to be cancelled ... ( read original story ...)

Nearly 60 per cent of people in Japan want the Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled, an opinion poll showed on Monday, less than three months before the Games are due to begin. ( read original story ...)

American sprinter Justin Gatlin was among 420 athletes to participate in a Tokyo test event with pandemic precautions in place Sunday ahead of this summer's delayed Olympic Games.The big picture: In ... ( read original story ...)