Tokyo Olympics (Page 4)
Organizing committee seems to have a problem with a huge clumsy bear running around with an open flame.
Official assures us that posting pics from the Games is A-OK, and clarifies what you’re not allowed to share online.
Your medal-worthy Olympic venue videos will have to stay within the confines of your phone, say organizers of 2020 Olympics.
This uniform will keep you cool and comfortable like a Japanese shadow warrior from the Edo period.
Tokyo’s last trains are too early for many travelers and partiers, but they’re a God-send for overworked office employees.
Disproportionate amount of foreign volunteers is perhaps the first of its kind in Olympic history.
Will the equivalent of one vending machine drink an hour be enough to gather the 80,000 volunteers the event is seeking?
Believe it or not, there’s actually a perfectly logical reason this manly mythical beast needs both a sword and a gun.
All six candidates were cute enough to do the country proud, but these two are the winners.
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Organizers find a way to let vision-impaired kids express their opinion of which of the adorable characters best represents Japan.
Chairman singles out two aspects of Japanese traditional culture that people of other nations “wouldn’t understand.”
One of the bleakest depictions of Tokyo in all of film is part of Olympics celebration projection mapping project.
The ashtrays in front of Japanese convenience stores aren’t there for people to smoke around.
After some seriously high-profile involvement, Nintendo characters aren’t part of newest promotional push for 2020 event.
Proposed tax hike aims to reduce the number of people lighting up before the Olympic flame comes to Tokyo.
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