TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo Friday ... forcing officials to move the start of the relay. The torch ends its round-the-world jaunt in August in Beijing, China, host ...

The Olympic torch relay for the Tokyo Games finally started ... “I hope this flame will turn a light of hope in each and every corner of Japan, and become a band of light to connect a path ...

Tight security accompanied the Olympic torch relay a day earlier in Japan, as thousands of police officers helped quickly end the few and sporadic protests in Nagano. Heavy security flanked ...

Japan had been rebuilding and many families ... have decided that Fukushima will play host to the start of the Olympic torch relay next March. The torch will be carried for three days through ...

(ATR) It may be a year late due to the pandemic but the Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay will still pass through 859 municipalities across Japan’s 47 prefectures. Tokyo 2020 organizers confirmed on Dec.

FUKUSHIMA/TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) - With waves, smiles and streamers, but no cheers, the Olympic torch relay kicked off on Thursday, beginning a four-month countdown to the postponed 2020 summer ...

FUKUSHIMA (Reuters) - Japan’s Olympic minister Tamayo Marukawa told reporters on Thursday she hoped the public’s sentiment towards the Tokyo Games would improve as the torch relay proceeded.

The purpose of the production of the television signal for the 29th Summer Olympic Games Torch Relay is to spread around the essential spirit of the Olympics’ “sports serving for the harmonious ...

is uniquely placed as a participant in the torch relay that preceded Japan’s first host Olympics in 1964. These days, he is an activist with a message about his beloved home. When the Olympic ...

"The Olympic Torch Relay always offers us a unique opportunity ... "We’ll be celebrating all the great things in the local communities across Japan, highlighting the great local stories across ...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay got under way on Thursday ... "Tokyo 2020 will bring the Olympic Flame back to Japan," it said. "The IOC and Tokyo 2020 ... will continue to stay in close ...

4 Kei Nishikori will be eligible to compete for Japan at this summer's Paris ... Osaka was the final runner of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay, lighting the cauldron at the opening ceremony in ...