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Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in uncertainty they are sure to be more muted than ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's budget for next fiscal year won't set a spending cap on requests aimed at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the finance minister said, suggesting the heavily indebted government would ramp up ... ( read original story ...)

Hitting children with bats and sticks, slapping them across the face, and holding their heads underwater to simulate drowning are some of the abusive coaching techniques allegedly used in Japan as ... ( read original story ...)

Hitting children with bats and sticks, slapping them across the face, and holding their heads underwater to simulate drowning are some of the abusive coaching techniques allegedly used in Japan as ... ( read original story ...)

A damning new study of sport in Japan has found child athletes have routinely suffered physical, sexual and verbal abuse from their coaches that led several take their own lives ... ( read original story ...)

Organizers for the Tokyo Olympics are making health and safety plans for a pandemic-era Games that they still can’t ensure will take place next year, including the possibility that any spectators ... ( read original story ...)

Built by the United Arab Emirates, and lifting off from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, the Emirates Mars Mission is the first of three missions headed to the red planet this summer. ( read original story ...)

Planning is underway to build a massive theme park in Yokohama, near Tokyo, according to Japanese media reports. If completed the park will be similar in size to Tokyo Disneyland. According to ... ( read original story ...)

Plans are in the cards to construct a theme park on the scale of Tokyo Disneyland at a site in this port city next to the capital that was used by the U.S. military for ... ( read original story ...)

Nissan Motors' new electric crossover SUV "Ariya" is displayed at the gallery of Nissan Motors global headquarters in Yokohama, Kanagawa-Prefecture, Japan on Saturday, July 18, 2020. Nissan unveiled ... ( read original story ...)

A Human Rights Watch report has found child athletes in Japan often suffer physical and verbal abuse and sometimes sexual abuse during training after documenting the experiences of over 800 athletes ... ( read original story ...)

Kanagawa police arrested a 29-year-old male company employee over the alleged fatal stabbing of a man at a residence in Yokohama City early Monday ... ( read original story ...)

Hundreds of current and former athletes in 50 sports reported mistreatment, raising serious questions ahead of next year’s Tokyo Olympics. ( read original story ...)

At least 600,000 people worldwide have died from the novel coronavirus since the global pandemic began, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University. There have been more than 14,400,000 confirmed ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's exports plunged at a double-digit pace for the fourth month in a row in June, backing signs the coronavirus crisis has knocked the economy into its worst postwar recession and raising the ... ( read original story ...)

Aichi Prefectural Police last week busted an illegal casino in Nagoya that is believed to have funded organized crime ... ( read original story ...)