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The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered major ad firm Tokyu Agency to pay a fine of ¥200 million for bid-rigging over the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 21, 2025
Tokyu Agency fined ¥200 million in Tokyo Games bid-rigging case
In the same case, former Tokyu Agency director Mitsuo Yasuda, 62, was given a prison sentence of one year and six months, suspended for three years.
Kirsty Coventry speaks during a news conference after being elected as IOC president on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Mar 21, 2025
Kirsty Coventry hopes to speak with Donald Trump about 2028 LA Games
Coventry, who is Zimbabwe's sports minister, as well as Africa's most decorated Olympian, said both the IOC and the United States wanted successful Olympics in 2028.
Newly-elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry during her first news conference in Costa Navarino, Greece, on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Mar 21, 2025
Kirsty Coventry enjoys 'extraordinary moment' as she becomes IOC's first female leader
The 41-year-old from Zimbabwe is also the youngest person to hold the most powerful position in sports governance.
World Boxing President Boris van der Vorst speaks to reporters on Thursday in Costa Navarino, Greece.
OLYMPICS / Boxing
Mar 20, 2025
Boxing earns spot in the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games
The IOC last month granted provisional recognition to World Boxing in a major step toward the sport's inclusion in the LA Games.
IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during an interview in Pylos, Greece, on Saturday.
OLYMPICS
Mar 16, 2025
IOC's Bach says Paris Games gender row was product of Russian fake news
Bach, who is stepping down in June, said the IOC had needed to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games.
IPC President Andrew Parsons poses for photos before a news conference at the Milano Cortina 2026 Organising Committee headquarters in Milan, Italy.
PARALYMPICS
Mar 7, 2025
IPC chief tasks sports with setting own rules for transgender athletes
The Olympic Games and the Paralympics currently allow transgender athletes to compete.
Akwasi Frimpong competes during a skeleton heat at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 15, 2018.
OLYMPICS / Skeleton
Mar 6, 2025
Skeleton racer Akwasi Frimpong wants to open doors for more African athletes
The 39-year-old broke barriers in 2018 when he and Nigerian Simidele Adeagbo became the first African skeleton racers to compete at an Olympics.
The figure skater Maxim Naumov, who lost his parents when an army helicopter collided with a passenger jet above the Potomac River, drops to his knees in tears on the ice at the Legacy on Ice tribute in Washington on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Figure skating
Mar 4, 2025
Figure skating stars pay an emotional tribute to the Washington plane crash victims
Dozens of stars from the sport, going back decades, attended the benefit.
The Olympic flag flies at Centennial Park in Atlanta on Jan. 19.
OLYMPICS
Feb 27, 2025
World Boxing looks toward Olympics after provisional recognition from IOC
The Olympic body said World Boxing had met several key criteria to merit provisional recognition.
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (center) runs during a 100-meter heat at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 3, 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Feb 20, 2025
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown ready to sprint past Paris disappointment
Despite setting a personal best with a time of 9.96 seconds, Sani Brown finished fourth in his semifinal heat in the 100-meter sprint in Paris.
Athletes compete in the men's 1,500-meter heats in front of empty stands at the National Stadium in Tokyo during the Tokyo Games in August 2021.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Feb 7, 2025
Tokyo world athletics party can make up for Olympic lockout, says CEO
Organizing committee head Takashi Takeichi is confident that all nine days of the World Athletics Championships will be sold out.
Honorary IOC member Chiharu Igaya speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 20.
OLYMPICS
Feb 4, 2025
Honorary IOC member urges organization to address climate change
Some studies have suggested that the number of possible candidates to host a Winter Games will fall to 10 by 2040 due to the effects of global warming.
Milano-Cortina Games organizers raised eyebrows earlier this month, announcing that they had picked Lake Placid in the United States as their Plan B for next year should anything happen to the sliding center project's timelines.
OLYMPICS
Feb 1, 2025
Sliding center for 2026 Winter Games in Italy on track, IOC says
With Feb. 6 marking one year to go until the Games, the sliding venue for the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton competitions remains on an extremely tight deadline.
Sebastian Coe speaks during a news conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Jan 31, 2025
Sebastian Coe admits mistakes in handling of prize money issue at Olympics
World Athletics announced its prize money decision unilaterally ahead of last year's Paris Games without consulting the IOC.
Former U.S. figure skaters Dick Button and Tenley Albright are introduced during an exhibition event after the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Boston in January 2014.
MORE SPORTS / Figure skating
Jan 31, 2025
U.S. figure skating great Dick Button dies at 95
Long before he became known for his on-air observations, Button dominated the figure skating world with his athleticism.
The Dentsu Group's headquarters building (center) in Tokyo. Tokyo District Court ordered Dentsu Group to pay ¥300 million in fines on Thursday as sought by prosecutors over bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 30, 2025
Dentsu Group ordered to pay ¥300 million over Tokyo Games bid-rigging
The Tokyo District Court also sentenced the former assistant head of the sports department of core subsidiary Dentsu to two years in prison suspended for four years.
Firefighters spray the rubble of homes that were demolished by the Eaton Fire on Wednesday.AFP-JIJI
OLYMPICS
Jan 17, 2025
Critics question Los Angeles' ability to host Olympics after wildfires
Governor Gavin Newsom has already moved to assure that Los Angeles will be ready to host the Games.
International Gymnastics Federation chief Morinari Watanabe in Tokyo on Thursday
OLYMPICS
Jan 14, 2025
IOC long shot Watanabe hopes 'crazy' Olympic idea sparks debate
Morinari Watanabe is proposing to host the Games simultaneously in five cities across five continents.
Multiple fires cover the skyline with smoke in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Jan 14, 2025
Devastating LA fires prompt 2028 Olympics debate
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said that planning for the 2028 Olympics and the FIFA World Cup in 2026 is on track.
A beachfront property destroyed by the Palisades Fire is seen in Malibu, California on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jan 13, 2025
Olympic chiefs vow to replace U.S. swim star medals lost in LA fires
Hall said he fled taking only his dog, the insulin he uses to treat his diabetes, a painting of his grandfather and a religious artifact.
Ozeki Onosato on doorstep of yokozuna promotion after latest title
Onosato celebrates after winning the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka on Sunday.
Ehime wildfire blazes on while Okayama's begins to burn out
Smoke from a wildfire in the city of Okayama on Monday. The fire had subsided by Tuesday while a separate wildfire in Ehime Prefecture continues to spread.
Japan bond rout signals era of ultralow rates might really be over  
Yields on Japan's 10-year government bonds have risen at a fast pace since the Bank of Japan ended its negative-rate policy last year and started to tighten.
Japan's first foreign swordsmith opens workshop in Hiroshima Prefecture
Johan Leutwiler checks a sword he made at his workshop studio in the Kui district of Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture.
Tokyo court strips Unification Church of religious corporation status
Nobuya Fukumoto (far left), a lawyer for the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, known as the Unification Church, is surrounded by the media at the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday after it ordered the group to be stripped of its religious corporation status.
Hanami season to have record ¥1.39 trillion economic impact on Japan
Cherry blossoms along a road in Tokyo on Tuesday. The 2025 cherry blossom season is expected to have an economic impact of around ¥1.39 trillion on Japan.
New SDF command will be key for contingency planning, Australian commander says
A Maritime Self-Defense Force SH-60K "Super Auk" from JS Shiranui prepares to land on HMAS Brisbane during Exercise Malabar 2023 while off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Japanese wages likely to rise more than 5% again this year
Wages are set for another big increase this year as annual negotiations secure generous agreements.
Stay at home if Mount Fuji erupts, government panel says
Mount Fuji in November. For the first time, the government has released specific guidelines on how residents should act in the event that Mount Fuji erupts.
In pictures: Tokyo's weeklong celebration of baseball's best
Shohei Ohtani belts a home run in the fifth inning of the second game of the Tokyo Series between the Dodgers and Cubs.

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