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IOC tells Japan that Tokyo Olympics will be safe for athletes and community; profits from Covid vaccines have helped nine people become billionaires ... ( read original story ...)

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will visit Japan from July 12, ahead of the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, broadcaster TV Asahi reported on Thursday. Plans for Bach to ... ( read original story ...)

The Tour de France podium finisher broke his scapula in Rio but now has another medal shot as one of eight riders selected ... ( read original story ...)

Prabudass Krishnan was unable to log in enough training hours for an international marathon, due to a viral fever infection, just weeks before the ... ( read original story ...)

The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo Olympic organizers start three days of virtual meetings Wednesday and will run into some of the strongest medical-community opposition so far with the ... ( read original story ...)

Actors Gen Hoshino and Yui Aragaki, who played offbeat but endearing lovers in a hit Japanese TV show, are really getting married. The couple announced their life-imitates-art decision in a joint ... ( read original story ...)

Bank branches in Tokyo have been swamped by pensioners trying to cash stimulus cheques from Joe Biden after the US Internal Revenue Service sent thousands of payments to Japanese citizens in an ... ( read original story ...)

Confronted in Japan with some of the strongest medical-community opposition yet to the Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach offered Wednesday to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's exports grew the most since 2010 in April, supported by a favourable comparison with the sharp plunge seen during the coronavirus pandemic a year earlier, while capital spending also rose in ... ( read original story ...)

After four years spent working and living alone, far from his family and friends, Tsuyoshi Tatebayashi packed his bags at the end of March and returned, at last, to his wife and two daughters. Like ... ( read original story ...)

"The Japanese politicians' projected constitutional revision is not merely an internal affair of a country but an international one as it is a frontal challenge to the efforts for ensuring global ... ( read original story ...)

Last week, a group of health care workers in Tokyo called for the games to be canceled because of fears it could hurt its fight against the pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Less than 10 weeks out from the postponed start to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, organizers have promised athletes they are doing everything they can to ensure the Games take place safely. ( read original story ...)

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reassured an anxious Japan on Wednesday that the Tokyo Olympics would be safe for athletes as well as the host community, amid mounting opposition to the ... ( read original story ...)

The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday reassured an anxious Japan that the Tokyo Games will go on as planned in July.IOC President Thomas Bach said athletes and the host community will be ... ( read original story ...)

Protesters of Southern Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, pro-democracy of Myanmar and Japanese hold placards during the anti-China demonstration in front of the Diet Building Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, May ... ( read original story ...)