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OLYMPICS

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2022
How China views the Ukraine crisis
The stakes for China are high, but Beijing has been extremely careful about showing its hand over the Ukraine crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2022
Deja vu: Putin, another Chinese Olympics and rumors of war
Fighting broke out on Aug. 1, 2008, between Russia-backed separatists and Georgian government forces as the Olympics were getting set to open in Beijing.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 2, 2022
China expected to reap record medal haul at Beijing Games, analysts say
The country is expected to beat its previous best of 11 medals, including five golds, from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 2, 2022
Beijing 2022 — A second pandemic Olympics
This Friday, the 2022 Winter Olympics kick off in Beijing, the second Olympics to be held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first ever to be held on entirely artificial snow.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 2, 2022
Why U.S. is before Austria for Beijing Olympics opening ceremony
At the Tokyo Olympics last summer broadcasters in the U.S. reported some viewers were confused at the order by which the countries entered the opening ceremony.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 1, 2022
Absence of Yuzuru Hanyu fans at Beijing 2022 a relief for Xi’s Pooh-paranoid censors
One of the Games' recent buzzworthy moments, the tossing of hundreds of stuffed bears onto the ice following Hanyu's performances, will be missing from the Olympics this year.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 1, 2022
Team Taiwan says it will be at Beijing Games' opening ceremony
Taiwan competes in most sporting events with the title 'Chinese Taipei' at the insistence of Beijing, which sees democratically governed Taiwan as part of 'one China.'
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / Longform
Jan 31, 2022
The legacy of the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics
As we count down to the opening of the 2022 Games in Beijing next month, we examine the impact of the first Winter Olympics held in Asia on Hokkaido's largest city.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2022
Japan set to pass China human rights resolution before Olympics
The House of Representatives is set to pass a resolution expressing concern about Uyghur human rights as early as Tuesday, in a move likely to irritate China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 30, 2022
Beijing offers high-tech power naps to journalists at Olympics
China is providing sleep rest cabins to allow reporters to take power naps of up to an hour with a simple scan of their mobile phone.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 30, 2022
Jamaican bobsled team committed to overcoming challenges in Beijing
Jamaica's bobsled team is determined to overcome financial issues and challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic as its four-man lineup returns to the Winter Games for the first time in 24 years.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 30, 2022
China reports 34 new COVID-19 cases among personnel connected to Olympics
Organizers have warned of more cases in the coming days as the Chinese capital enforces stringent measures.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 30, 2022
British skeleton quartet hoping to maintain dominance in Beijing
For a country that does not even boast a skeleton track, Britain's record at producing Olympic medal winners in the high-speed sliding sport is phenomenal.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 29, 2022
Japanese athletes eager to strike gold as Beijing Olympics near
The Japanese delegation has a total of 262 members, including 124 athletes, the most the country has ever had for a Winter Olympics held abroad.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 29, 2022
Taiwan athletes won't participate in Winter Games opening ceremony
Self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China, had feared Beijing could 'downgrade' Taiwan's status by putting its athletes alongside those from Chinese-run Hong Kong at the opening ceremony.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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