A French-Japanese child has made his first appearance to rapturous applause this week under his new stage name - Onoe Maholo.

Japan is looking to fast-track the use of robots in its workplaces and drones to carry out deliveries.

They all lived in Fukushima and developed thyroid cancer after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the reactor in 2011.

Some members of Canada’s Olympic delegation were placed under COVID-19 protocols upon arrival in Beijing. These protocols are strict — with Chinese officials hoping to keep COVID-19 out of the Olympics just days before it begins.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continued his virtual tour of world capitals with a video address to Japanese lawmakers, the first online speech by a foreign leader to the legislature.

Actor Ally Maki joined Cheddar's "Between Bells" to talk about her role as Detective Haruka on the recently premiered Hulu animated series "Hit-Monkey." Maki's character is one of the few women police detectives on the Tokyo force in the...

North Korea has fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile towards the sea off its eastern coast, South Korea has said, with Japan saying two missiles were launched.

Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted from a mid-August peak of nearly 6,000 in Tokyo, with caseloads in the Japanese capital now routinely below 100, an 11-month low.

Randy Bachman, best known as the former Guess Who guitarist, has found his very first guitar after losing it more than 45 years ago.

Athletes celebrated their achievements at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics on the closing weekend, especially Canada’s multi-medalists.

Activists have welcomed the progress made on accessibility and inclusion issues but warn that there is still a long way to go in changing attitudes towards disabled people in Japan.

At Tokyo’s new Dawn café, robots whizz around taking orders. But rather than AI, they are powered by humans thousands of kilometres away.

The 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games have officially opened and even with no fans in the stands, the field of athletes is the largest ever.

The increasing pressure to scratch the event is now coming from an official partner of the games.

An official partner to the Toyko Olympics calls for the games to be cancelled because of the Covid risk

The youngest member of Canada’s Olympic fencing team, 15-year-old Jessica Guo, hopes to make it to the podium with her team in Tokyo and is already looking forward to future Olympics and a career in medicine.

The restrictions were due to be lifted next week, but with Japan still grappling with a fourth wave of the pandemic, this announcement had been widely expected.

Olympic athletes will be given daily tests for the coronavirus during their time in Tokyo this summer, as part of a number of tighter countermeasures introduced to show the event was still on track.

Marnie McBean tells Power & Politics she is confident that Team Canada's safety protocols will protect both the athletes and the people of Tokyo.

Nobody predicted a global health pandemic, the Olympics being delayed by a year, it does become challenging for hosts.

Resurgence in COVID-19 in Japan, as well as elsewhere in the world, is the latest challenge to the long-delayed event.

The president of Canadian Olympic Committee, David Shoemaker, says the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be safe for athletes and are worthwhile holding as a ‘beacon of hope’ during the pandemic.

Even with a year-long delay, training restrictions and a lack of competition, Canadian athletes are doing their best to prepare for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics despite all the uncertainty.

After a delay of more than a year, the Olympic torch relay ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 games has begun.