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By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Despite public opposition in Japan over fears of new coronavirus surges, the Tokyo Olympic Games that were postponed last year will get under way on July 23, with spec...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hoped holding the 2020 Olympics would reprise the triumph of 1964, when it became the first Asian host of the Games and gained a huge economic boost, but the cor...

By Rocky Swift and Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - Medical experts in Japan welcomed a decision to hold the Tokyo Olympics without spectators under coronavirus restrictions but cautioned that the ban wi...

(Reuters) - World number two Naomi Osaka said she was under immense pressure to disclose more details when she stepped away from the French Open for a mental health break, but is now ready to make Jap...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will allow in temporary workers from non-EU states to alleviate a labour shortage and help the economy recover, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday. Szijjart...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - International Olympic Committee (IOC) leaders and the Japanese government are pressing on with the Tokyo Games, after a year's delay due the coronavirus, but with...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - With the clock ticking down to the opening of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23, Japan is preparing to host a Games like no other in history as it grapples with the corona...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic organisers have decided to hold the Tokyo Games without spectators, as Japan struggles to stem a new wave of coronavirus infections with a state of emergency for Tokyo that w...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have agreed to hold the event without spectators under a COVID-19 state of emergency, Japan's Olympics Minister Tamayo Marukawa said on Thursday. (Re...

By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's capital Hanoi imposed movement restrictions on Thursday to try to keep at bay an expanding coronavirus outbreak, as authorities reported a record rise in c...