The Tokyo Olympics are now just over two months away and calls to ditch the Games in the face of the pandemic are getting louder by the day. So why isn't Japan talking about cancelling the Games?

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 son of a Hiroshima survivor, Morinari Watanabe is trying to become the International Olympic Committee’s first Asian ...

That is why flying the flag at the Tokyo Olympics has caused an uproar demanding it is banned from the Games. Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them is the national emblem, ...

Softball returned to the Games for the first time since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. But it's not on the program for Paris in 2024. The six-team tournament featured defending Olympic champion Japan ...

Japan’s Maki Takada, left, and Evelyn Mawuli, right, embrace as they celebrate the team’s win over Belgium in a women’s basketball quarterfinal game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 4, in ...

Canadian ski jumping sensation Alexandria Loutitt claimed her second career World Cup victory on Saturday with a gold medal ...

The countdown for the 2020 Olympics has entered the home stretch. July 24th marks 2 years until Tokyo hosts the biggest games ever, 339 events in 33 sports. And, step by step, people in Japan are ...

"That's what the Olympics are about." Samurai soldiers have played a huge part in Japanese history since at least the 12th Century. Although samurais themselves no longer exist, "bushido" - the ...

The Japanese bounced back in the sixth bout to tie the match and take a two-point lead ... Pauty was on fire throughout the bout and quickly earned the last five touches needed to win the match and ...

This is also the fifth time that gold has been selected on an annual basis, which shows the dominant fashion of Japanese wrestlers in the Olympic Games, and how their people are fascinated by ...

Some of the most adored characters from Haikyuu - Hinata, Kageyama and others, faced off against Oikawa in a similar showdown between Japan and Argentina at the Olympics. Even though the match was ...