Tokyo
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Olympics delay a blow for virus-hit Tokyo hotels
Mar 29, 2020The shock postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has dealt a savage blow to Japan’s hotels and tourism industry, already reeling from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Many operators have seen bookings decimated by the... -
Tokyo Olympics postponed over coronavirus pandemic
Mar 24, 2020The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday. The Games were scheduled for July 24-August... -
Paris, Tokyo, New York and others pledge to slash waste
Aug 29, 2018By slashing food waste and improving waste management and recycling, 23 global cities and regions representing 150 million people pledged Tuesday to significantly cut the pollution-causing garbage they generate by 2030. Places like New York, Tokyo,... -
Landmarks illuminated as Tokyo celebrates two years until Olympics
Jul 24, 2018Famous landmarks across Japan were illuminated simultaneously on Tuesday to mark two years to go until the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Tokyo Tower and the Yoyogi Building shone in the Japanese capital, while... -
Tokyo focuses on environment two years out from Olympics
Jul 23, 2018With two years to go until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese capital is hoping to use the Games as motivation to improve its environmental sustainability. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who was previously Japan’s Minister of... -
Tokyo digital art museum looks to ‘expand the beautiful’
May 5, 2018The waterfall appears to run down the wall of a room and across the floor, but the flow is an illusion — a digital exhibit at a new interactive museum in Tokyo. The flower-filled waterfall is... -
Michael Phelps says U.S. swim team can thrive without him in Tokyo
Apr 14, 2018Michael Phelps will not be tempted out of retirement to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Games but the most decorated Olympian of all time is optimistic the U.S. swimming team can succeed in his absence. The... -
Samurai sword attack kills 3 people at a well-known Shinto shrine in Tokyo
Dec 8, 2017The attacker’s wife also took part in the ambush on Thursday evening, police say, injuring the priestess’s driver. The male attacker then stabbed his wife to death before killing himself. An attack believed to have been... -
Tokyo’s Koike reaches deal with opposition party ahead of Japan poll
Sep 30, 2017News Hour: Popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, whose fledgling conservative party poses a growing challenge to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in next month’s election with a small party based... -
Tokyo stocks fell in early Tuesday trading after North Korea launched a missile
Aug 29, 2017News Hour: Tokyo stocks fell in early Tuesday trading after North Korea launched a missile over Japan that the country’s prime minister described as an “unprecedented, serious and grave threat”. Nuclear-armed North Korea’s launch of a...
