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, ...

There’s the International Olympic Committee. The 11,000 athletes. The Japanese organizing committee. The Japanese public. The absent fans. And how about the sponsors? Or the Japanese government ...

Japan rebounded faster than expected from its pandemic-driven slump in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics. Official figures show the world's third-largest economy grew at twice the rate forecast in ...

Watch as Japan's Ami Yuasa wins the first ever breaking Olympic gold in the women's final at Paris 2024.

PARIS--Years of efforts by the Japanese Fencing Federation to groom top-flight competitors, including enlisting coaches from France and Ukraine, paid off big at the Paris Olympics. Japanese ...

Japan's Olympic snowboarding champion Ayumu Hirano has joined the new professional halfpipe league founded by thr ...

Two-time Olympic softball champion Japan plans to develop pitchers and catchers for an expected battle against the United ...

The US Women's National Team (USWNT) has made it to the quarterfinals of the 2024 Paris Olympics soccer tournament, where ...

Children of the First Tokyo Olympics On October 10, 1964, I was just one year old and lived in Japan's second largest city, Osaka. Like Tokyo, the city had been ravaged by air raids during World ...

He trained in Japan under a scholarship program under the Japan Olympics Association. ARIC JOHN SY CUA From left: Paris Olympic all-around champion Shinnosuke Oka, Carlos Yulo and Sugino Takaaki.

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi underwent a successful hip replacement surgery in Luxembourg and is "well on the mend," her office said in a statement. Former US House ...

However, in the first OQS event in Shanghai, he finished 17th, jeopardizing his chances of being named to the Japanese Olympic skateboarding team. The OQS events mattered more for Japanese street ...