Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, speaks during a media tour at the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the Tokyo 2020 Games, constructed in the Harumi waterfront district of Tokyo, on June 20, 2021. (Photo by Akio KON / POOL / AFP) Tokyo 2020 organizers threw...
Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto applauds next to the celebration cauldron on the first day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture on March 25, 2021. (Photo by KIM KYUNG-HOON / POOL / AFP) Around 10,000 of 80,000 planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic volunteers have quit,...
Japanese torchbearer Azusa Iwashimizu (center), a member of Japan women's national football team, arrives at a torch kiss point to pass on the Olympic flame on day one of the torch relay outside J-Village National Training Centre in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture on March 25, 2021. (Photo by PHILIP...
SLGH003 (9SA5 Hi-Beat caliber) In honor of Grand Seiko’s 60th anniversary, the Japanese brand launches new studios and timepieces. In Japanese culture, a 60th birthday is a moment of new energy and rebirth, and for Grand Seiko, 2020 is the perfect moment to open a new global showcase and present...
TOKYO – Tokyo 2020 should be held next year ''at any cost'' given athletes' efforts to be ready, Japan's Olympic minister said Tuesday, a day after the IOC's John Coates told AFP that the postponed Games would go ahead in 2021 ''with or without Covid''. ''For the Games next year, athletes...