Tokyo’s Fourth State of Emergency Means No Spectators at the Olympics Another week, another state of emergency in Tokyo. This one is due to run until August…
Spotlight: Hitomi Kinue – Japan’s First Female Olympian Next up in TW’s Spotlight series is Hitomi Kinue, the first woman to represent Japan at the Olympics.…
What Economic Impact will the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have on Japan? Eight brand-new arenas, 10 temporary venues, citywide infrastructure from high-tech train stations to heat-blocking pavements, and…
Hikaru Utada Announces They Are Non-Binary In our latest news round-up we report on Hikaru Utada who this week came out…
From Tokyo 1964 to 2020: Iconic Tokyo Olympic Venues The Japanese proverb “Nana korobi ya oki” which roughly translates as “fall down seven times,…
Health Experts Raise Concerns As Fans Given Green Light To Attend Tokyo 2020 News in Japan has once again been dominated by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games this…
Is The State Of Emergency Being Lifted Too Early? In this week’s news roundup we look at the government’s decision to lift the state…
Tokyo 2020 New Controversy – The Live Site Project is Coming For Our Parks I think it’s fair to say, even if we are being charitable, that the Olympic…
Is this the Death Knell for the Olympics? Japan’s Anti-Olympic Petition Gains Steam Anti-Olympic Petition Closes in on 200,000 Signatures At the time of writing more than 183,000 people…
Tokyo 2020 Promotes the Traditional Crafts Collection from Japan’s 47 Prefectures Souvenirs from any Olympics have always been a popular way to remember the games, and…
Tokyo Illuminates Select Venues to Mark 100 Days to Go until Olympic Games Olympic venues throughout Tokyo will be illuminated in the Olympic colors of blue, yellow, black,…
Tokyo 2020 vs Tokyo 2021: What the Olympics Will Look Like “A symbol of global solidarity”. The words Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga used to describe the…
One Year To Go: Roadmap to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics The Tokyo Olympics certainly made history in 2020, but not in the fashion Japan would…
Meet the 2020 Athletes: Swimming Sensation Daiya Seto Next up in our Meet the 2020 Athletes series is Daiya Seto, one of Japan’s…
Meet the Tokyo 2020 Athletes: Karate Sensation Ryo Kiyuna This month we kick off our Meet the 2020 Athletes series, which we’ll be running…
