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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
The International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission continued its tour of venues for Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics on Wednesday with a visit to Tokyo Big Sight. The sprawling complex next to Tokyo Bay would play host to wrestling, fencing and taekwondo if the capital city wins the right ...
Amateur boxing association chief C.K. Wu of Taiwan has notified IOC president Jacques Rogge he will be a candidate to ...
Singapore’s Ng Ser Miang is set to become the second declared candidate in the race to succeed Jacques Rogge as ...
Organizers of Istanbul’s bid for the 2020 Olympics say safety and security are their “utmost priority” following the twin bombing attacks on a Syrian border town. Turkey has blamed Syria for Saturday’s car bombings that killed at least 46 people in Reyhanli, a main ...
A resounding majority of Istanbul residents back the city’s candidacy to host the 2020 Olympic Games, Turkish Sports Minister Suat Kilic said Monday. “Eighty-three percent of Istanbul’s population support the bid -that’s 11 million people who want a city which bridges East and West ...
Support is rising nationwide for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid, according to International Olympic Committee officials, and support is now at 70 percent in Tokyo, it was announced.
The Japan Wrestling Federation launched an online petition site to keep wrestling in the Olympics on Monday with the aim of submitting 100,000 signatures to the International Olympic Committee. The website, titled “Save Olympic Wrestling,” can be accessed in several languages. The federation plans ...
The Tokyo Olympic bid committee held a commemorative event Tuesday to mark 200 days before the vote to decide the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The event was held jointly with the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the international terminal ...
After a series of scandals that have rocked the sports world in recent weeks, the Japanese Olympic Committee is working to improve how it handles its societal duties. At the same time, the JOC recognizes the urgency to work to restore public faith in ...
Japan Wrestling Federation President Tomiaki Fukuda on Wednesday called into question the International Olympic Committee’s decision to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games, saying the sport’s governing body has failed to give “clear reasons” for why wrestling is being removed. Fukuda said the fight ...
The IOC's decision stuns Japan, which collected six wrestling medals at the 2012 London Games.
In the wake of claims of physical and verbal abuse made by national women’s judo team members, a Kyodo News survey on Sunday found that training staff in two additional sports admitting knowing of physical abuse. In a questionnaire distributed to coaches and development ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee announced Friday that the representatives of all 31 Olympic sports federations it questioned over two days said no abuse exists within their organizations at the national level. The questioning was the first step in an investigation by the JOC into ...
In response to allegations of physical and verbal abuse in the national women’s judo team, the Japanese Olympic Committee on Thursday began investigating abuse in its other affiliated federations, with 13 of the bodies questioned telling media they were free of abuse. For two ...
Envoys for the Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee left Japan on Sunday for Lausanne, Switzerland, where they will present the International Olympic Committee with Tokyo’s candidature file on Monday. Among those making the presentation will be bid committee CEO Masato Mizuno, silver medal-winning women’s soccer ...