As a child, Hiroko Fujita watched the 1964 Tokyo Games on television. Now remembered as an event that brought live Olympics sports to the world, Fujita told CNN how thrilling it had been to witness ...

Actively engage with international, translated fiction. Recognize and explain the significance of some aspects of Japanese culture and geography. Evaluate legacies of the 1964 and the 2020 Tokyo ...

The Tokyo Olympics, christened with “2020” but held in mid-2021 after being interrupted for a year by the coronavirus, glided to their conclusion in a COVID-emptied stadium Sunday night. A rollicking ...

TOKYO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Japan concluded the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with a record haul of 27 gold medals, far exceeding the previous high of 16 at the 2000 Athens Olympics. Mitsugi Ogata, general ...

The 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics in Tokyo are sadly over, but the good news is that, because of the COVID-19 delay, we get the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in just 176 days (Friday, February 4) and ...

Tokyo — It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ended with a typhoon blowing through and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything. A rollicking closing ceremony with the theme "Worlds ...

The final medals are being awarded in the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, wrapping two weeks of competition overshadowed by Covid-19. Team USA won more gold medals – and more medals overall – ...

Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics wasn’t a sexy one. But the promise of efficiency, competence and high-tech wizardry was more than enough to convince members of the International Olympic ...

In this July 25, 2021, file photo, Gold medalist Uta Abe, of Japan, second from left, stands beneath her country’s flag following the medal ceremony for women’s -52kg judo, at the 2020 Summer Olympics ...