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On 26 September 2022, Takahashi was arrested for the third time on allegations that he and an acquaintance received ¥15 million from Osaka-based Daiko Advertising. In return, the organizing committee was asked to use Daiko as an agent for a major English language school operator in Japan which eventually became an official Tokyo Olympics sponsor.
Various concerns and controversies arose in relation to the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris including security, [1] human rights issues, Israel's participation amidst the Israel–Hamas war, and allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The two major Axis powers of World War II, Germany and Japan, were suspended from the Olympics, although Italy, their former ally, participated. [7] German and Japanese athletes were allowed to compete again at the 1952 Olympics. The Soviet Union was invited but chose not to send any athletes, sending observers instead to prepare for the 1952 ...
"The lack of fans will be weird for some of the athletes," says former U.S. Olympic swimmer Tara Kirk Sell.
Veteran director Johnnie To discussed the challenges of filmmaking under increased regulation in Hong Kong during a conversation with Japanese filmmaker Yu Irie at the Tokyo International Film ...
The last scheduled event is the Tokyo Challenge Track Meet, which was originally due to take place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 May 2020. [ 198 ] All test events originally scheduled to take place from 12 March 2020 onwards were postponed due to COVID-19, with the test event calendar to be reviewed during the preparations for the rescheduled Games.
Just weeks after Japan’s Olympic Games chief was forced to resign over his sexist comments, the Tokyo International Film Festival has become the first major festival in Asia to sign a gender ...
The National Diet Building in Tokyo The politics of Japan are conducted in a framework of a dominant-party bicameral parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy . A hereditary monarch , currently Emperor Naruhito , serves as head of state while the Prime Minister of Japan , currently Shigeru Ishiba since 2024 , serves as the ...