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The countdown to the delayed Tokyo Olympics is on with 100 days to go to the opening ceremony on 23 July. But how prepared are Japan and Team GB and what will a Games amid a global pandemic look like? ( read original story ...)

OSAKA -- A demonstration opposing the bill to revise the immigration law was held in front of the Osaka Regional Immigration Services Bureau in the city's Suminoe Ward on April 13, with protesters ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics ran through a mostly empty Osaka city park on Tuesday, showing the risks of trying to hold the postponed games during a pandemic. It came on the same ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The number of Katano Police Station employees infected with the coronavirus reached 12 and the instance was recognized by the Osaka Prefectural Government as a cluster outbreak ... ( read original story ...)

But in Osaka, as in other parts of Japan, the virus is behaving in a way that is frustrating the Tokyo 2020 countdown at every turn. Less than a year after the then prime minister, Shinzo Abe, lauded ... ( read original story ...)

A 38-year-old man was assaulted by two men who sprayed a substance on his face and stole a bag containing 3 million yen in Nagoya on Tuesday. According to police, the incident occurred at around 4:50 ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Grampus and Sanfrecce Hiroshima are set to take on each other in their upcoming J1 League clash on Wednesday. The Japanese domestic league match is set to be played at the Toyota Stadium on ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Indian golfer Rahil Gangjee returns to play in Japan after nearly five months as he is set to tee it up at this week's Token Homemate Cup in Nagoya, which begins on Thursday. Gangjee, who won ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA -- With the announcement that new coronavirus infections in this western Japan prefecture exceeded 1,000 people on April 13, a sense of crisis has spread inside the Osaka Prefectural Government ... ( read original story ...)

With 100 days to go until the Games, already postponed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, questions remain over how Tokyo can hold a massive sporting event and keep volunteers, athletes, ... ( read original story ...)

When 2020 Tokyo Olympics volunteers have in recent weeks asked officials how they'll be protected from Covid-19, given the foreign athletes pouring into Japan for the event and the country's low ... ( read original story ...)

Suga will visit the White House on Friday in a summit that underscores the importance of the US-Japan alliance as part of Biden’s strategy to work with allies to counter Beijing. The US wants to refer ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA: Torchbearers for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics ran through an empty park in Osaka Prefecture on Tuesday, after the flame relay was rerouted from public roads due to a sharp rebound in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Osaka Reports Record 1,099 COVID-19 Cases, Mutation Fuels New Wave Osaka reported 1,099 daily infections, a record high for the prefecture, which is home to 8.8 million people and is Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Japan won the bid to host the Olympic Games eight years ago, it billed Tokyo as a reliable and secure location, contrasting it with rivals struggling with finances and political ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo pitched itself as "a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago. “The certainty was a crucial factor," Craig Reedie, an IOC vice president at the time, ... ( read original story ...)