Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai requested Tuesday that the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics start from the disaster-hit city of Ishinomaki to symbolize the country's recovery. In a meeting with Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike in the capital, Murai also called for having ...
For sponsor companies, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is a golden opportunity to develop and showcase new technologies, not only to impress foreign visitors but also to provide a legacy for future generations. With everything from a mist curtain designed to cool people off in the ...
Another medal-earning feat by the Japan men's 4x100-meter relay team at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in London was certainly an encouraging sign, and now it hopes to achieve its ultimate goal: winning a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. That, of course, will ...
A Japanese nonprofit group is preparing to set up a hospitality venue for LGBT athletes and fans during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to boost diversity at the events. "We want to leave a legacy by opening up the world of sports (to diversity) ...
Shunichi Suzuki, the new minister in charge of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, is optimistic that the quadrennial sporting events may help promote the reconstruction of areas damaged by the March 2011 disaster. "I'm from Iwate," Suzuki noted in a recent interview. Iwate ...
A total of 2,042 mascot design submissions for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were received from the public, the games organizers announced Tuesday. According to the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, there were 1,774 individual submissions and 268 group submissions, with approximately 40 percent of the ...
Yoshiro Mori, president of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, has expressed his eagerness to make the games memorable. "We will consider how to realize games that can be enjoyed from the bottom of the heart and will be engraved on ...
Toyota Motor Corp. is considering developing an electric vehicle for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to showcase its eco-friendly technology, sources close to the move said. Toyota, one of the top-tier sponsors of the games, plans to introduce the EVs ...
Tokyo will not benefit long term from hosting the 2020 Olympics — contrary to the hopes and prayers of a nation — sports economist Andrew Zimbalist said Wednesday. "I'd be really surprised," Smith College professor Zimbalist said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, when ...
Former Chunichi Dragons closer Sun Dong-yol will manage the South Korean national baseball team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, when the sport will return to the Olympic program, the Korea Baseball Organization said Monday. South Korea beat Cuba to win the gold medal at the ...
Kyrie Irving made his first trip to Japan this week, and the Cleveland Cavaliers point guard already has plans to come back. In the summer of 2020, just in time for the Tokyo Olympics. "I can't wait," Irving said on Friday night, after the Clutch Bucket ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee aim to secure more than 90,000 volunteers to welcome visitors to Japan for the 2020 Games. The capital is pondering ways to attract and train volunteers to offer omotenashi, or Japanese hospitality. For the ...
