Buddhism meets beatboxing, hip-hop dancing and laser light shows at a temple in Tokyo, where efforts to get youth and foreign nationals interested in the centuries-old religion have taken on a modern twist. About 30 students from around the world visited Komyoji temple on Thursday ...

Foreign residents and wheelchairs — much less Paralympic athletes — were a rare sight in Japan in 1964. Preparations to host the Summer Olympics and the second-ever Paralympics were well underway. Stadiums, highways and hotels were being built at breakneck speeds, cutting-edge photographic and timing ...

Those who were left empty-handed following the first-round lottery in June will get a second chance to apply for tickets beginning Thursday.

The yearlong countdown to the opening ceremony for the 2020 Games was marked with IOC President Thomas Bach commending the progress Tokyo has made in preparing for the event.

With exactly one year to go until the opening ceremony, delivery of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games remains "firmly on track," John Coates, chairman of the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission, said on Tuesday. "The excitement is growing," Coates said during a joint ...

Activists opposed to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games say the events will hurt individuals and businesses through high costs and disruption, and will provide only fleeting gains for a small number of people in the political, economic and media elite. The anti-games organizations ...

Constitutional revision, a consumption tax hike and the future of the pension system were on the minds of voters as they took to polling stations across the country to cast their ballots in the triennial Upper House election on Sunday. Reporters from The Japan Times ...

Rear Adm. Brian Fort assumed command of U.S. Naval Forces Japan and Navy Region Japan (CNFJ/CNRJ) during a change-of-command ceremony Wednesday at a naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, amid growing regional tensions and concerns about the U.S.-Japan alliance, as well as questions of ...

Alcoholism, addiction and depression: Few people can overcome these things alone. In many cases, the warm and ever-present support of well-intending loved ones is a godsend, but in others, it can do more harm than good. One Tokyo-based nonprofit group, Light Ring, is looking to help ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps that used to be true, back in a time when a single photograph could feed a starving nation like Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," or condemn war like Nick Ut's "Napalm Girl," or capture the burning ...