TOKYO — Japan began its three-year countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Monday with concerts, races and other events meant to drum up public enthusiasm for the games. The 2020 Games will be Japan’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The 2020 Olympics can "usher in a new Tokyo" and, along with this year's Rugby World Cup, leave behind a legacy similar to that of the 1964 Summer Games, the city's Governor Yuriko ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Five additional sports -- baseball/softball, karate, skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing -- have been recommended by the organisers of the Tokyo Olympics for inclusion at the ...

Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Vol. 33/34, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Design, Culture and Urbanity in an Era of Dissonance (2021-2022), pp. 55-67 (13 pages) Kuresawa Takemi, Orinpikku to ...

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 invites players to compete in an array of Olympic sports. The game introduces new sports like skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing, and karate, ...

(TOKYO) — Voting for the selection of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic mascots ended Thursday. Japanese elementary students had 73 days to vote for their favorite pair of mascots. More than ...

Globally, mass gathering events are always a challenge for the host city because of the threats of man-made or natural disasters, which include the outbreaks of infectious diseases.1 The Tokyo 2020 ...

GLAND, Switzerland (20 January, 2020) - With little more than six months before the start of one of the world’s biggest sporting events, the Tokyo Olympics, WWF is raising serious questions about its ...

Objectives To evaluate and compare the injuries of Olympic wrestlers during the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games held in August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods In this descriptive ...

Koji Murofushi (C), Olympic hammer throw gold medalist and an observer member for the Tokyo 2020 additional event programme panel speaks at a press conference in Tokyo. TOKYO: Five additional sports, ...