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By Ju-min Park and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO, July 6 (Reuters) - Olympic organisers have capped the number of spectators allowed into venues, but will offer Japanese students special access under a programme that would let hundreds of thousands of children see the worlds best athletes compete. Tickets are cheap and COVID-19 countermeasures are in place. Many schools, however, have already pulled out, and others are still on the fence, awaiting more information. Close to 1.3 million tickets were booked...

By Syndicated Content By Ju-min Park and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Olympic organisers have capped the number of spectators allowed into venues, but will offer Japanese students special access under a programme that would let hundreds of thousands of children see the world’s best athletes compete. Tickets are cheap and COVID-19 countermeasures are in place. Many schools, however, have already pulled out, and others are still on the fence, awaiting more information. Close to ...

U.S. President Joe Biden reaffirmed his support for the Tokyo Olympics at a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Saturday, highlighting the necessity of imposing public health measures ensuring the safety of those involved. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were postponed last year due to the global spread of the coronavirus, are scheduled to start on July 23, in the face of opposition from most of the public, many Japanese companies and medical staff. At a meeting with...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivers his policy speech at the opening of the Lower House parliamentary session in Tokyo, Japan January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to finish vaccinating all citizens who have applied for shots by October-November, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said during a debate between party leaders on Wednesday. Less than 50 days before the scheduled start of the Tokyo Olympics, Japan has vaccina...

TOKYO — Japan’s most senior medical adviser said on Wednesday that hosting the Olympics during a pandemic was “not normal” while media reported thousands of…

OLYMPICS-2020/CORONAVIRUS (UPDATE 1, PIX):UPDATE 1-Japans hosting of Olympics in pandemic not normal, adviser warns

By Antoni Slodkowski and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - The organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have secured about 80% of the medical staff needed to sta...

By Antoni Slodkowski and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - The organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have secured about 80% of the medical staff needed to stage the Games, a top Olympic official told Reuters on Monday, amid worries over infections and the slow rollout of vaccinations in the Japanese capital. Toshiaki Endo, vice president of the Games organising committee, said some domestic spectators could be allowed into venues for the benefit of athletes, although he personally preferred a total ban ...

Freed Japan reporter calls on Tokyo to take concrete action against Myanmar junta Reuters 1 hr ago By Antoni Slodkowski © Reuters/KYODO Japanese journalist Yuki Kitazumi who was detained in Myanmar speaks to media upon his arrival at Narita Airport in Narita, Japan By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese journalist recently freed from a Myanmar jail urged his government on Friday to take "concrete action" against the military regime there, including reviewing it...

Myanmar’s crumbling economy runs low on cash Hours-long queues at cash-short banks have become a daily routine, creating work for black-market brokers By Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing and Antoni Slodkowski / Reuters If you need cash in Myanmar, you must get up early. Queues start forming outside banks at 4am, where the first 15 or 30 customers are given a plastic token that allows them to enter the bank when it opens at 9:30am and withdraw cash, according to more than a dozen people who spoke t...