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Japan takes steps to prevent another water shortage during Olympics
Plans are in place to raise water levels in reservoirs serving Tokyo and surrounding areas in a bid to meet demand during next year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Japan plans to tap high-wealth tourists with bid to attract luxury superyachts from abroad
The transport ministry is boosting efforts to attract superyachts, owned by wealthy foreign individuals, to Japan in the hope that their port calls bring a major boost to the country's economy. The ministry hopes that visits by superyachts, or large cruisers with a length of ...
Japan residents can register for Tokyo 2020 Olympics ticket lottery from May 9
Registration for the lottery will be possible from May 9 via the ticket sales website, where users can choose which Olympic events they wish to attend.
Over half of guide dog users say Tokyo's preparations for 2020 Games not yet adequate, survey shows
More than half of guide dog users in Japan said Tokyo is not adequately prepared to welcome visitors from overseas who rely on guide dogs when it hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020, a survey finds. The largest segment of the respondents, 50.6 ...
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on Monday hosted a group of students from the Tohoku region to discuss its recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, as well as preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Games. The five teenage "reconstruction ambassadors" from Iwate, ...
Tokyo Paralympic Games get a cherry blossom torch with new color and braille text
The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Games has unveiled the Paralympic version of the official torch, which uses the braille alphabet and differs from the Olympic torch in color. Both the Paralympic and Olympic torches for next year's games make use of Japan's iconic ...
Japan marks 500 days until 2020 Tokyo Olympics with events and official sport pictograms
Japan on Tuesday marked 500 days to go until next year's Tokyo Olympics formally begin as the local organizing committee unveiled a set of pictograms representing the different sports and competitions to be contested at the 2020 Summer Games. Also Tuesday, Yoshiro Mori, president of ...
Tokyo 2020 volunteers: Golden opportunity or brazen exploitation by Olympics awash with cash?
Unpaid Olympic volunteers do almost everything: guide athletes around, greet dignitaries and translate for lost fans. International Olympic Committee officials acknowledge the games couldn't be held without them; invariably smiling, helpful and praised by presidents, prime ministers and monarchs. The billion-dollar Olympics are awash with cash. ...
Tokyo plans traffic survey ahead of 2020 Olympics, and urges firms to adopt 'smooth biz' flexibility
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has revealed plans to conduct a road traffic volume survey later this year, ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The survey will take place for several weeks around July 24, a year before the Olympic opening ceremony. The Tokyo government ...
Olympic and Paralympic venues on track to be completed in time for summer test events
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic venues are on course to be completed in time for test events to be held there later this year, games organizers said Tuesday. Sailing and water polo federations have already staged dress rehearsals in Tokyo, and the 2020 Olympic ...
Two-time Paralympic medalist Shoko Ota hung up her skis following the 2014 Sochi Games, but she has taken up a new sport: the martial art taekwondo, with the goal of making her debut at the summer games next year in Tokyo. The 29-year-old Ota started ...
Amid cries to nurture bona fide Paralympic superstars in Japan, Gurimu Narita, the men's Pyeongchang Paralympic banked slalom champion, is certainly among the few athletes with the potential to become sports icons as famous as today's able-bodied superstars. While social recognition of both the Paralympics ...
