The Japanese government said the Olympics would ... but still higher than Beijing’s US$185 million from selling 96 per cent of the 2008 Olympics tickets. The British government initially ...

But after seeing Yuki Ota clinch silver in the foil―Japan’s first individual medal in fencing―at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he picked up the sword. Then he switched to the epee while at ...

paid off big at the Paris Olympics. Japanese fencers took home five medals, more than the three the country had collected since the 2008 Beijing Games. Japan seized the gold medal in the men’s ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- After mustering only two medals at the Paris Olympics, the Japanese women's judo team faces a difficult road as it seeks to reassert its dominance at the world ...

(CNN) -- Security concerns and sympathy toward Tibetans prompted a Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, to withdraw from participation in the Olympic torch relay next week, a temple official said on ...