When the Fujisawa Satsuki rink claimed the silver medal at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, it looked like the ...

TOKYO (Reuters): Japan's daily rate of coronavirus vaccinations has reached a crucial milestone of 1 million, government data showed on Wednesday (June 23), as authorities scramble to recover lost ...

Pushing on with the Olympics after the postponement--and during the pandemic--has hurt the IOC’s reputation in Japan. Kaori Yamaguchi, a former bronze medalist and a member of the Japanese ...

The biggest life-changer in snowboard champion Ayumu Hirano’s life since he won an Olympic gold medal is that he became a ...

Swimming is one of the biggest sports at the Olympics, and the schedule of events for the Tokyo 2021 Games has been released in full. The swimming program ran for nine days – Saturday ...

A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been certified the world's oldest barber, Guinness World Records said -- and she has ...

Japanese sexual minority groups and their supporters, in a last-ditch effort to get long-sought equality legislation passed before the Tokyo Olympics, submitted requests on Friday to the governing ...

Keigo Oyamada, a Japanese composer whose music is part of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, has apologised for bullying a classmate during his childhood. The reports of his abusing a child with ...