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FILE - In this Nov. 24, 1964, file photo, Emperor Hirohito, background, reads prepared speech as he formally opened the 47th extraordinary Diet (parliament) in Tokyo. Every Japanese of a certain age has memories of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Emperor Naurhito, whose grandfather Emperor Hirohito opened the Games, has his own memories. He was a 4 1/2 year-old child at the time and reminisced last week with guests, including American first lady Jill Biden. “I myself have a lasting memory of the closing ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where athletes from different countries paraded together s...

28 Jul 2021 Olympic athletes competing in outdoor games have become increasingly vocal in their protests that Tokyo’s summer heat is a threat to their health, prompting tennis to reconfigure its schedule on Wednesday to the evenings to keep players out of the sun. The decision followed objections from Novak Djokovic, the world’s top tennis player and a favorite to win the gold medal, and a particularly excruciating match for world number two Daniil Medvedev, who protested to the umpire Tuesday that if he continued playing, “I can die.” Djokovic is representing Serbia at the Summer Oly...

TOKYO (AP) — From Emperor Naruhito on down, every Japanese of a certain age remembers the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Even younger Japanese connect through parents or aunts and uncles who stored old photos, told stories or recalled getting a television set for the first time to watch the Games. These were the first Olympics broadcast live using satellites and the last to be run on a cinder track; a bridge between older Olympics and the modern. There are recollections of new bullet trains, urban expressways going up — not all of them completed for the Games — and complaints about cost overruns,...

26 Jul 2021 The headlines about challenges at the 2021 Olympics summer games have focused on the coronavirus. Though, it turns out the brutal summer heat and humidity are what’s wreaking havoc on athletes. Even moving start times to early morning has not been a winning strategy. A columnist with Yahoo News described the scene on Monday morning in Tokyo: The finish line of the men’s triathlon Monday morning looked something like a battlefield scene, bodies sprawled out on ground, trainers coming to the aid of overheated athletes, even a few being helped off with their arms draped over shou...

Tokio: Naomi Osaka, la "tenista rebelde" que está cambiando Japón Mike Henson Pie de foto, Naomi Osaka cuenta una historia. Ocurrió en Florida, donde los mejores tenistas jóvenes del mundo se congregan y compiten. Osaka, de unos 10 años, se estaba preparando para un partido del prestigioso torneo Orange Bowl cuando escuchó una conversación de su oponente japonés. "Estaba hablando con otra chica japonesa", le dijo Osaka al diario Wall Street Journal. Final de Quizás también te interese "Su amiga le preguntó con quién estaba jugando", contó Osaka. "Y su amiga dijo: 'Oh, esa chica...