Around 175 tons of food prepared for athletes and 300,000 bento boxes for volunteers and staff members were tossed out as trash during the Tokyo Summer Games, the Board of Audit said.

Coronavirus measures meant that the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics were held this year without spectators in most venues. But there were some exceptions—and they included about 20,000 ...

TOKYO (AP) -- The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits remain as difficult to untangle as the Games ...

As Paris gets ready to host the Olympics, a reflection on the previous Games, held in Tokyo three years ago, prompts doubts about predictions of a COVID-induced disaster.

When it won its bid in 2013, the Tokyo metropolitan government estimated the cost to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games would come to 734 billion yen ($6.73 billion).

The president of Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Group acknowledged corporate responsibility for suspected bid-rigging on contracts for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, NHK and other local ...

At the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony this summer, three artists clad in blue and white deftly brought all 50 official sporting pictograms to life, seamlessly transitioning from one to the next ...

TOKYO -- Japan has already seen some big moments at the Tokyo Olympics, a teen skateboarding sensation, a golden harvest in judo, and podium-topping finishes in boxing, softball and fencing among ...

Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympics organizing comittee, apologized Thursday for comments he made suggesting women talk too much in meetings.