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There are more questions than answers for the 2021 Summer Olympics. What will be cut? Will there be fans? What about ticket refunds? How will athletes travel to Tokyo? Where will they stay? ( read original story ...)

The Olympics—and your dream trip to Japan—may have been canceled this year, but with help from Google Earth, you can still see Japan's top 20 attractions, including Mount Fuji and Hashima Island. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo unveiled a road map to reopening the economy in the world's largest metropolitan area, as the city of almost 14 million people was reported to have just nine coronavirus cases on Friday. From a ... ( read original story ...)

Pachinko parlors that have remained open say they have implemented a series of measures to lower the risk of the virus spreading. They have mandated face masks, banned smoking exc ... ( read original story ...)

A large screen on a building shows live broadcasting of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's news conference on Japan's response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Kabukicho entertainment ... ( read original story ...)

For years Japan’s major banks roamed overseas for returns, a strategy that has suffered this year. Their generous dividends remain, but they are the last point of attraction for the stocks. ( read original story ...)

World Rugby has called off the July tour matches in the southern hemisphere and is looking at rearranging them for October ... ( read original story ...)

Almost two months after the Tokyo Olympics were postponed, organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said Friday he still could not give an estimate of how much the one-year delay ... ( read original story ...)

The organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the first in history to be postponed, said on Friday they were not aware of detailed spending allocations for $800 million committed to next year's ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's four major brewers all posted double-digit falls in sales of beer and beer-like drinks in April from a year earlier, hit by a ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo residents need to get used to a "new normal" that includes telecommuting in their long fight against the coronavirus epidemic, its governor said, adding that restrictions would stay in place at ... ( read original story ...)

World Rugby has called off the tour matches in the southern hemisphere in July and plans to hold consultations in an attempt to rearrange them later in the year ... ( read original story ...)

Smokers in Nagoya are struggling to find a place to smoke in public places amid the coronavirus outbreak, as a smoking area near a key station was shut down to avoid a crowd of people. On April 23, ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's partial lifting of a state of emergency appears to suggest that its approach to fighting the novel coronavirus based on reque ... ( read original story ...)

Large parts of Japan marked the first day out of a state of emergency on Friday while major cities remained under coronavirus restrictions and new testing suggested that contagion in Tokyo was wider ... ( read original story ...)

Abe lifted the emergency in 39 of Japan's 47 prefectures but left it in force in the capital and in the second-largest urban area of Osaka, as he tries to cushion the economic blow while stopping the ... ( read original story ...)