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Tokyo area comes to halt for Beckham visit

'Fight!': Japan cheerleaders root for Olympic athletes

Squad members held up signs saying 'To all athletes', 'Fight!', and 'Tokyo 2020' with an image of the Olympic rings

No overseas spectators for Tokyo Olympics?

The Mainichi newspaper earlier reported that the government was planning to ban overseas spectators due to worries they would spread the coronavirus, citing multiple unnamed sources.

Surge in COVID-19 cases puts Tokyo Games in doubt

As Japan expands state of emergency, calls grow to cancel Games. Japan has repeatedly insisted it will hold the Games despite opinion polls showing a majority of respondents want them postponed again or cancelled.

Japan's World Cup win over Colombia lifts mood after quake

Japan basked in the glow of its World Cup soccer team's historic win over Colombia, a victory that has lifted the nation's mood after an earthquake struck its second-biggest metropolis Osaka.

6.8 quake in Tokyo, tsunami warning issued

Japan sits at the juncture of four tectonic plates - or moving slabs of the earth's outer crust - and is one of the world's most quake-prone regions.

Ex-staffer stabs 19 to death at Japan care facility

The attacker believed that 'all disabled people needed to be killed'.