Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person, following the death of 114-year-old Miyoko Hiroyasu, according to Japan's Ministry of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's National Stadium was fan-less four years ago during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics; zero atmosphere in the $1.4 billion, 60,000-seat venue for the globe's greatest track and ...

TOKYO — They call him downtown Ira Brown. His three pointers got him the nickname. For years he's played professional basketball in Japan. But he never dreamed he'd get to the Olympic stage. "Not in a ...

TOKYO/ATHENS (Reuters) - The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday to 2021, the first such delay in the Games' 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked the world's last sporting ...

TOKYO - The world needs to see that Japan can stage a safe Olympics, the country’s prime minister told sports officials Tuesday ahead of the Tokyo Games. Tens of thousands of athletes, officials, ...

The U.S. women have won eight of the 11 Olympic 5-on-5 basketball tournaments, including six straight gold medals. They're favored again in the Tokyo Games, and their Olympic victories sometimes feel ...

KYOTO--Fittingly and not surprisingly, "kin," or gold, was selected as the kanji most capturing the mood of 2021, the year Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics for the second time.