UN News - The UN chief on Monday extended his condolences to the families of those who died in a landslide, which struck the Japanese coastal city of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture, over the weekend. According to news reports, at least four have been declared dead,
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Public sentiment in Japan has been generally opposed to holding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, partly based on fears the coronavirus will spike as almost 100,000 people — athletes and others — enter for both events. The Japanese medical community is largely against
STEPHEN WADE, AP NEWS— Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago. “The certainty was a crucial factor,” Craig Reedie, an IOC vice president at the time, said after the 2013 vote in Buenos Aires. Now, nothing
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed until 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a conference call with the head of the International Olympic Committee. “I proposed to postpone for about a year and [IOC] president Thomas Bach
