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Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Simon Denyer TOKYO - A day after the Tokyo Olympics concluded, social media posts in Japan showed photos and videos of a man believed [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim and Simon Denyer SEOUL, South Korea - The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Tuesday that Pyongyang could move to bolster its [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Michelle Ye Hee Lee TOKYO - The flame that burned throughout one of history's most controversial Games was extinguished Sunday as Japan brought the curtain down [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - As the Tokyo Aquatics Center emptied after its last event of these Olympic Games on Saturday, the strains of Abba's 'Dancing Queen' played over the [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - British diver Tom Daley says he is proud to be able to inspire other people as openly gay athlete, but he is quick to add [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO -- Roughly eight centuries ago, a new martial art called karate came into being on a subtropical island now known as Okinawa. On Friday, an Okinawan [...]

Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Simon Denyer TOKYO - Japan's capital logged a record number of coronavirus cases this week, burdening the hospital system amid a slow vaccine rollout, [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Two Belarus Olympic officials accused of attempting to force sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to return home early from the Tokyo Games have been stripped of their [...]

Byline: Rebecca Tan and Simon Denyer After the Japanese table tennis team mounted an upset against the Chinese in the mixed doubles Olympic final, they found themselves facing a barrage [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan and Simon Denyer MOSCOW - Belarusian Olympic runner Krystsina Tsimanouskaya arrived Wednesday in Poland to seek asylum after refusing to return to her homeland amid fears of [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Isabelle Khurshudyan TOKYO - Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya left Tokyo on Wednesday on her way to seek asylum in Poland, after refusing to fly home [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya arrived in Vienna on Wednesday on her way to seek asylum in Poland after refusing to return [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Japanese gymnast Mai Murakami broke down in tears Thursday when asked about hateful comments directed against her online, for participating in an Olympics that many [...]

Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Simon Denyer TOKYO - DJ Daisuke Kikyo jumped in the air, pumped his fists and blasted hits such as 'La Bamba,' 'YMCA' and 'Call [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - In the months leading up to the Olympic Games, the citizens of Tokyo became extremely worried about the prospect of tens of thousands of foreigners [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace, Emily Giambalvo, Simon Denyer and Barry Svrluga TOKYO - The Tokyo Olympics officially begin Friday with the Opening Ceremonies, a four-hour extravaganza of flag-waving, parades, music, lights [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Michelle Ye Hee Lee TOKYO - For a moment, members of a crowd gathered outside Tokyo's National Stadium gasped as fireworks lit up the sky at [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Michelle Ye Hee Lee Another ouster of a person involved in staging the Tokyo Olympics - this one over an antisemitic joke more than two decades [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Michelle Ye Hee Lee TOKYO - Another ouster of a person involved in staging the Tokyo Olympics - this one over an anti-Semitic joke more than [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - With the Olympics mired in controversy and criticism just two days before Opening Ceremonies, big business here has started to distance itself from the event. [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Adam Kilgore TOKYO - Throughout the tumultuous buildup to the Tokyo Olympics, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has seemed impervious to both criticism and occasionally [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - South Korean President Moon Jae-in has scrapped a planned visit to Tokyo for the Olympics and to meet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, his office [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - When Tokyo staged the Olympics in 1964, the Games marked Japan's reemergence from the ashes of defeat in World War II and symbolized its readmission [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach laid a wreath at a memorial to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima on Friday, but [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach added to his already shaky public image in Japan on Tuesday by inadvertently referring to the Japanese people as [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Frenchman Vincent Fichot began a hunger strike this weekend close to Tokyo's Olympic Stadium in a desperate bid to regain access to his two young [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Japan will bar spectators from all Olympic events held in and around Tokyo, organizers announced Thursday, as the government imposed a fresh state of emergency [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a new state of emergency in Tokyo on Thursday that will run throughout the Olympic Games, to combat rising [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Talk about the loneliness of the long-distance runner. The marathon is among the Olympics' most iconic events: Crowds of cheering fans metaphorically carrying runners through [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Rescuers used heavy machinery, shovels and dogs on Monday as they searched desperately for survivors from a landslide in the seaside city of Atami that [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has chastised ruling party officials for failures in their anti-virus work that created what he called a 'grave incident' [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Naruhito appears to be 'concerned' that this summer's Olympics in Tokyo could cause a rise in coronavirus infections, according to the head of [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - In Japan, attitudes toward the LGBT community are only changing slowly, so news that Kumi Yokoyama, a 27-year-old Japan international soccer player and Washington Spirit [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Olympic organizers will allow spectators at this summer's Tokyo Games but cap attendance at 10,000 people or 50 percent of a venue's capacity, whichever is [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer KANAZAWA, Japan - Kazuya Ohata had problems sleeping and had voluntarily checked into a psychiatric ward on several occasions after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. But a 2016 [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - A wild bear went on a rampage in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo on Friday, storming a Japanese military base, forcing its way into [...]

Byline: Katerina Ang and Simon Denyer TOKYO - The Japanese government announced Thursday it would end a state of emergency covering Tokyo and several prefectures as planned this Sunday, as [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the country's food situation 'tense,' state media reported Wednesday, amid mounting reports of shortages. Opening a plenary [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Rick Maese TOKYO - Olympic athletes and officials breaking strict covid-19 rules could face a range of punishments ranging from warnings to disqualification, organizers of the [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - There will be joy and drama, glory and grief, among Olympic competitors. But this summer's pandemic-era Games in Tokyo are destined to go down as [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim and Simon Denyer SEOUL, South Korea - The accusations are anonymous and surface on social media: alleging that a range of South Korean celebrities - sports [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - As the Biden administration prepares to unveil a new strategy to deal with North Korea, the regime in Pyongyang is already pushing back, complaining on [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Rick Maese TOKYO - The International Olympic Committee this week unveiled updated plans for holding the Summer Games in Japan, meticulous 'playbooks' that promise to ensure [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim and Simon Denyer SEOUL - In the offices of Grand Plastic Surgery in Seoul's glitzy Gangnam district, Lee Se-hwan has been busy nipping, tucking and keeping [...]

Byline: Anne Gearan and Simon Denyer WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden was making a point as he welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House on Friday, using [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Julia Mio Inuma TOKYO - The Olympic Games scheduled to be held in Tokyo this summer may have to be canceled depending on the coronavirus situation, [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer NAMIE, Japan - Japan has ambitious plans to be entirely carbon-neutral by 2050. Trouble is: It has no clear vision of how to get there. Japan's nuclear [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - The Japanese government said Tuesday it had decided to release into the sea more than 1 million tons of water that has collected at the [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer and Julia Mio Inuma TOKYO - There will be a few bleary eyes in corporate Japan on Monday morning. In this golf-crazy nation, it's hard to overestimate [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung, Loveday Morris, Simon Denyer and Kareem Fahim WASHINGTON - The Biden administration has opened the door to lifting Trump-imposed sanctions against Iran that are 'inconsistent' with the [...]