Tokyo 2020 is due to begin on 23 July despite public opposition. People in Japan have taken to the streets in recent months calling for the Olympics to be cancelled or postponed, amid coronavirus ...

When it won its bid in 2013, the Tokyo metropolitan government estimated the cost to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games would come to 734 billion yen ($6.73 billion). That figure has since ...

In December 2020, the Tokyo Olympics organisers announced that the cost had ballooned to US$15.4 billion – double its original estimate. Japanese economist Takahide Kiuchi from the Nomura ...

The sum of $3 billion in sponsorships for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo is thrice more than the previous record. The London games in 2012 reportedly clocked $1.1 billion in corporate sponsorships.