(ATR) We only know the barest of details about plans for the Olympic torch relay for the 2020 Games in Tokyo. A slogan has been chosen. Special recognition to the earthquake region will be given.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay got under way on Thursday when the flame was lit by the rays of the sun in ancient Olympia in a ceremony that was scaled down in the face of the coronavirus ...

The April 13 relay marks 20 days since the torch relay began on March 25 in Fukushima Prefecture. The opening of the Tokyo Olympics will be 100 days away on April 14. The relay is taking place as ...

He recently published a book about Japan's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and he hopes to be in Fukushima for the start of the torch relay next March. On October 10, 1964, I was just one year ...

"The Olympic Torch Relay always offers us a unique opportunity ... A dedicated team in Japan will help Coca-Cola coordinate with Tokyo 2020 on the Relay. So far, only the general route has been ...

A powerful typhoon closed in on Hong Kong as it hosted the torch relay for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Runners battled strong winds as the event fostered enthusiasm and support for the then-colony ...

Guinness World Records has officially recognised a 108-year-old Japanese woman as the world’s oldest professional barber. Shitsui Hakoishi, who turns 109 this year, says she plans to retire when she ...

A memorable Olympics as they are held in Asia for the first time with plenty of success for British athletes TOKYO had spent over ... lit the Olympic flame with a torch handed to him by Yoshinori ...

A 108-year-old woman from eastern Japan was officially recognised on Wednesday by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest female barber, Kyodo News Agency reported. Shitsui Hakoishi from ...

The Olympic torch relay for the Paris Games began Tuesday ... and fire spurts forth. Tokyo Olympic rowing gold medalist Stefanos Ntouskos of Greece was the first torchbearer.