The Tokyo Games eight years later offered the region its first relay, and more than 800 torchbearers took part. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first to hold a torch relay in Asia, taking in 11 ...

The Olympic torch relay has been disrupted many times during the journey The Olympic torch relay has been cancelled on Tokyo's streets, as fears over the spread of Covid-19 continue to plague the ...

Over 50 years since pictograms were first used at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics ... Pictograms have arguably become as much a part of the Olympics and Paralympics as the all-important torch relay and the ...

About five months ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, the large crowd that watched a torch relay rehearsal in Hamura on the outskirts of Tokyo on Feb. 15 showed the anticipation that is already building.

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 ...

Amid cloudy skies and chants of anti-Games protesters, the Tokyo Olympic torch relay started its homestretch in Tokyo on July 9. A welcoming ceremony was held at the athletics stadium in Komazawa ...

Kane Tanaka reportedly said she didn't want to risk spreading the virus to others in her nursing home The world's oldest person has withdrawn from the Olympic torch ... the relay for Tokyo 2020 ...

(ATR) IOC TOP Sponsor Coca-Cola will serve as the top-tier sponsor of the Tokyo 2020 Torch ... and use the torch relay emblem in marketing. "The Olympic Torch Relay always offers us a unique ...