The unveiled statues of Miraitowa, left, and Someity, official mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, are seen to mark 100 days before the start of the Olympic Games ...
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The statues of Miraitowa, left, and Someity, official mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, to mark 100 days before the start of the Olympic Games as well as a displ...
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The celebration cauldron is seen lit on the first day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. The torch relay for the postponed T...
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Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, listens a question during a press conference in Tokyo.
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A woman wearing a protective mask walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo. Asian stock markets followed Wall Stre...
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga receives his first dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo.
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People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo. Shares are higher in Asia after gains for major tech companies powered a 3.7% surge in the Nasdaq, the large...
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A helicopter dumps water on a wildfire in Ashikaga, Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. A forest fire broke out in the rural area Thursday, near another blaze burning since Sunday,...
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Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organizing Committee speaks during the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board meeting in Tokyo, Japan. The 56-year-old Hashimoto was named...
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Tokyo Medical Center director Kazuhiro Araki, left, receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Tokyo. Japan's first coronavirus shots were given to health workers Wednesday, beginning ...
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A Tokyo hospital staff checks temperature of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine with delivery staff at the hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Japan's COVID-19 vaccinations are scheduled to begin...
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Myanmar people living in Japan and supporters march as they hold posters with an image of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest in Tokyo.
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Myanmar people living in Japan and supporters march though Shibuya pedestrian crossings during a protest, in Tokyo. Thousands of people from Myanmar living in Japan marched in down...
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Demonstrators hold placards to protest against holding the planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo. Yoshiro Mori resigned Friday as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing ...
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Burmese living in Japan and supporters march during a protest in front of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. Myanmar's new leader said the military government installed after Monday's ...
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People holding portraits of Myanmar's de facto government leader Aung San Suu Kyi stage a protest rally in front of the United Nations University in Tokyo after Myanmar's military ...
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Mount Fuji is viewed clearly through the cool winter air as Japan National Stadium, front left, where an opening ceremony and other events for Tokyo 2020 Olympics are planned, are ...
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"Hina" dolls depicting U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, right, are displayed for Girls' Day celebrations at Kyugetsu, a Japanese traditional doll company,...
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A worker stands at a spectator stand at Canoe Slalom Course, one of the venues of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games, in Tokyo. The postponed Tokyo Olympics are to open in jus...
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People wearing face masks to protest against the coronavirus walk at an underpass in Tokyo. The Tokyo area has been under a state of emergency since Friday to try to stop the sprea...
Toshihiro Nikai, the secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, suggested the cancellation just a day after Tokyo reached the 100-days-to-go mark on Wednesday.
Despite surging cases of COVID-19, myriad scandals and overwhelming public opposition in Japan to holding the Tokyo Olympic Games, organizers and the IOC are pushing on
The question of refunds came into play a week ago when local organizers and the Japanese government decided to bar most fans from abroad because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
If the torch relay has problems, if COVID-19 cases pop up and if there are delays, it could send up red flags about the feasibility of holding the Tokyo Olympics
In February, the president of the organizing committee Yoshiro Mori was forced to resign after making sexist comments, saying women talk too much in meetings.
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