By the closing ceremony of this summer's Tokyo Olympics, the Winter Games of Beijing 2022 will be less than six months away — an anomaly in the calendar, as the Olympics have been split in ...

Seiko Hashimoto has been elected president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman to head the body.

The International Olympic Committee was already struggling to find hosts for the Winter Games. Sapporo’s flailing 2030 bid has added another headache.

Tokyo knows the heartbreak of forfeiting one Olympics and having another postponed. It knows about re-introducing itself to the world by hosting.

International Olympic Committee denies reports that Tokyo Summer Games will be canceled 02:50 Exactly six months from the scheduled start of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, Japan's government was ...

Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka lights the Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium, in Tokyo, on July 23, 2021.

After a year’s delay, the Tokyo Summer Olympics look set to proceed. But the circumstances will be most unusual. Here's what you need to know.

Tokyo — More than 80% of people in Japan who were surveyed in two polls in the last few days say the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled or postponed, or say they believe the Olympics will not ...

This will be Tokyo’s second time hosting the Summer Games, after the 1964 Olympics, and Sapporo and Nagano hosted the Winter Games in 1972 and 1998, respectively.

TOKYO -- Seiko Hashimoto, a seven-time Olympian and former Cabinet minister, was last week elected as the first woman ...

Just as Sapporo has started officially pushing for the 2030 Winter Games, a bribery scandal involving Japan’s most recent Olympics in Tokyo is casting a dark shadow on its plans.

A still-unfolding corruption scandal linked to the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics has turned public opinion sharply against Sapporo’s bid and complicated Japan’s ability to stage large events in ...