The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

Japan removes strict Covid-19 travel curbs, fuelling hopes a tourist boom will reinvigorate the economy

TOKYO — A system to register same-sex partnerships opened for applications in Tokyo on Tuesday, in a symbolic step forward for a country that has fallen behind its peers on embracing diversity.

Great Britain will still lose the 4x100m relay silver medal from Tokyo 2020, with Ujah handed a reduced sentence of 22 months

Anti-doping authorities accepted CJ Ujah’s positive test at Tokyo 2020 was ‘not intentional’ and due to a contaminated supplement

(This Oct.09 story has been corrected to add negative COVID-19 test condition in paragraph 13)

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea early Sunday, Seoul's military said, the seventh such launch in two weeks, just hours after a nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier wrapped up joint drills off the Korean peninsula. Seoul, Tokyo and Washington have ramped up combined naval exercises in recent weeks,…

The battle for the Ryuo title, the most prestigious of all eight major shogi titles, began Friday between 20-year-old defending champion Sota Fujii and eighth-dan challenger Akihito Hirose in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.

SANSKARDHAM (Gujarat): The bitter loss at the Tokyo Summer Games allowed Olympian couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari to change their perspective about the sport which they loved all their lives.

Janusz Peciak has backed a horse riding alternative after a remarkable punch controversy that emerged at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games