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Error-prone AI chatbot dog leads Japan's elderly astrayA cartoon canine AI chatbot designed to cheer up and inform lonely older residents of western Japan is in the doghouse after providing erro...- Tokyo residents continue to support the Olympics amidst rising virus cases53-year-old Shigeki Osada said it was a shame that the surge and the Olympics overlapped, although he believes they are two separate things...
- Tokyo Olympics: A success? A failure? And how to judge?Pushing on with the Olympics after the postponement, and during the pandemic, has hurt the IOC's reputation in Japan. Kaori Yamaguchi, a fo...
- Tokyo Olympics limits capacity to 50%, 10,000 local fans will be allowed in all venuesFans from abroad were banned several months ago. Officials say local fans will be under strict rules.
- Why are Olympics going on despite public, medical warnings?The medical journal The Lancet has raised questions about the health risks and criticized the World Health Organization and other health bo...
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offers Tokyo Olympics some big power supportThe Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were postponed last year due to the global spread of the coronavirus, is scheduled to start on July 23.
- Half of Japanese predict Olympics will happen this year, poll showsFor the Tokyo Olympics, already postponed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, public concerns remain over how Tokyo can hold the global...
- Tokyo Olympics march on without fans from abroadThe IOC must get the 11,000 athletes into the venues and in front of cameras. Japanese residents will fill the stands to whatever level is ...
- Tokyo 2020 likely won't allow foreign Olympic volunteers: ReportThe organising committee may consider allowing the entry of volunteers with specialised skills such as speaking minority languages as an ex...
- No fans from abroad for postponed Tokyo OlympicsThe Japanese newspaper Mainichi said on Wednesday the decision had been made to exclude foreign fans. It cited only unnamed sources “involv...
- Seiko Hashimoto takes over as Tokyo Olympic presidentThe 56-year-old Hashimoto was named president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee after a meeting of its executive board, which is 80...
- Tokyo Olympics to pick Mori replacement; is a woman likely?Mori tried last week to work behind the scenes to appoint 84-year-old Saburo Kawabuchi, the former head of the governing body of Japanese s...
- Tokyo 2020 organisers estimate Games postponement cost $1.9 billion - mediaThe International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government were forced to put off the Games for a year in March as the coronavirus spr...
- Japan's Olympics minister: not government's role to look into bid paymentsIn response to a question from a lawmaker about Reuters' reporting on the subject, Hashimoto said it was the responsibility of the Japanese...
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, aka 'Super Mario', loses out on OlympicsAbe's humorous invitation to the next Olympics in Tokyo was a big hit among Brazilian fans, and to a worldwide television audience. It turn...
- Next year's Olympics will be cancelled if pandemic not over: Games chiefThe postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn't brought under control by next year, the organising co...
- Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for July 23-Aug 8 in 2021Last week, the IOC and Japanese organizers postponed the Olympics until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. This year's games were sc...
- Olympic torch relay: No torch, no torchbearers, no publicThere will be an Olympic flame — that arrived on March 12 from Greece — carried in a lantern and transported by a vehicle along what organi...
- Tokyo 1940: The missing OlympicsIn 1940, Tokyo was set to host the summer Games but they were cancelled. 80 years later, the city finds itself in a similar situation, alth...
- Olympics-Asia would welcome third straight Winter Olympics: OCA chiefOLYMPICS-2026/SAPPORO:Olympics-Asia would welcome third straight Winter Olympics: OCA chief
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