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Novelist Yu Miri: Tokyo Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding

Yu Miri, who won this year's National Book Award for translated literature, says Tokyo's Ueno Park, where a homeless man kills himself in her award-winning story, looks very clean ahead of Olympics

Tokyo Olympic Games sponsors pay $3.3 billion, but more still needed

A University of Oxford study says they are the most costly Summer Olympics on record

Tokyo Olympic Games won't confirm added costs reported at $3 billion

A University of Oxford study published early this year calculated before the postponement said Tokyo was the most expensive Summer Olympics on record and the meter is still running.

Tokyo Olympic organizers plan to host 18 test events beginning in March

The Tokyo Olympics are set to open on July 23, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: IOC President promises athletes unforgettable experience

Speaking from the Olympic Village, the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach promised the athletes an unforgettable experience at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Japan can host Olympics despite recent virus spike: Tokyo governor

Japan has experienced an uptick of the infections this month with a nationwide daily total exceeding 2,000

Olympic preparations: Narang, Sushil meet parliamentary standing committee

India is likely to field a strong contingent at the Games, which was pushed back by a year to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic

IOC back in Tokyo as world prepares for next year's Summer Olympics

The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Coordination Commission Chair John Coates returned to Japan, for the first time since February 2020, with IOC President Thomas Bach for the Joint International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and Tokyo 2020 Project Review.The meetings, held between November 16 and 18, reaffirmed the full commitment of all partners to deliver Olympic and Paralympic Games fit for a post-corona world next year.Speaking afterwards, Coates said that discussions have reinforced their joint determination to hold "safe and successful" Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo."This is a very positive sign that we've been able to return to Japan at this point in preparations. Discussions over the last three days have reinforced our joint determination to hold safe and successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Close collaboration and regular communications with our friends in Japan, partners across the world and the entire Olympic ...

Thomas Bach encourages Tokyo Olympics-bound athletes to get vaccinated

Thomas Bach has said that athletes for next year's Tokyo Olympic Games are encouraged to get vaccinated, although the IOC will not issue obligatory requirements.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 to have 'reasonable' crowd size, says IOC chief

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach believes that the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games can be held safely and, in all likelihood, with some kind of crowd inside the venues next year

Determined to stage safe, secure Olympics next year: Tokyo Governor

Earlier in the day, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received the Olympic Movement's highest award, the Olympic Order in Gold

Covid-19: Tokyo Olympics may allow foreign fans but there will be rules

Next year's postponed Tokyo Olympics if they happen will be like no other, particularly for non-Japanese fans if they are allowed to enter in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Olympic leaders raise hopes for safe Tokyo Games with fans in the venues

Encouraged by progress this week in finding a Covid-19 vaccine and staging sports events in Japan, the IOC is getting more confident that next year's Tokyo Olympics can have fans in the venues

Hoping for economic boost, Japan wants Tokyo Olympics to go ahead: poll

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who sees tourism as key to reviving the economy, has vowed to do all it takes to ensure the coronavirus pandemic-delayed Olympics Games take place in 2021

IOC gives assurance to sports bodies that 2020 Tokyo Olympics is on track

The International Olympic Committee tried to assure dozens of international sports federations on Thursday that the postponed Tokyo Games will open on July 23

SAI and NRAI to jointly organise bio-secure national shooting camp

The Karni Singh Range will be divided into four "risk" zones to ensure that Olympic-bound shooters can safely resume training at a two-month long national camp

Japan determined to host Tokyo Olympics in 2021: Yosihide Suga at UNGA

New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said that the country is determined to host the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games to prove that humanity has defeated the Covid-19 pandemic

Japan's Olympic minister vows to hold Tokyo Games 'at any cost'

Japan's Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto said on Tuesday that the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should be held "at any cost", trying to clear all doubts amid the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic

Tokyo Olympics to happen next year, despite coronavirus pandemic

IOC V-P Coates told AFP in a phone interview the Games will start as planned on July 23 "with or without Covid," stressing that the Olympics have never been cancelled outside of world wars

Covid-19 vaccine not a 'prerequisite' for Olympics, says Tokyo 2020 CEO

"As for the spectators, we don't have any conclusions yet. But if possible, we'd like to avoid a 'no spectators' situation," the Tokyo 2020 CEO said