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Tokyo governor to push for smoking ban

Tokyo governor to push for smoking ban

Kasumigaseki Country Club took the decision to change its bylaws at an extraordinary board meeting after being told last month that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would find another venue if the policy of not admitting women remained unaltered.

Tokyo 2020 golf venue votes to admit women members

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands before their meeting at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo on Monday. — AFP

Kingdom, Japan identify 9 areas of cooperation

International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coates.

Admit women or lose Tokyo Games golf, IOC tells club

Tokyo City University

‘Study in Japan’ fair launched

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Lady Gaga wants to ‘drive all over Tokyo’

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Angling for Olympic glory

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike waves the Olympic flag upon arrival of the flag at Haneda international airport in Tokyo Aug. 24, 2016. — AP

Tokyo leader vows Olympics, policy leadership

Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike (C) carries the Olympic flag as she is welcomed by well-wishers upon her arrival at the Tokyo’s Haneda airport Wednesday. — AFP

Olympic flag arrives in Tokyo

Brazilian surfer Rico de Souza holds up the Olympic torch after surfing with it at praia da Macumba (Macumba beach) in Rio de Janeiro Thursday. — Reuters

Baseball, surfing among 5 sports in for 2020

Yuriko Koike celebrates her win in the governor election in Tokyo. — Reuters

Tokyo elects Yuriko Koike as first woman governor

A lifeguard helping 101-year-old Mieko Nagaoka (R) go to the poolside after swimming in the 400m freestyle race in the Japan Masters swimming competition in Narashino, in suburban Tokyo. — AFP

101-year-old Japanese aims for more records

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Tokyo 2020 bid leaders say payments ‘legitimate’

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French inquiry says $2m payment fuels Tokyo Olympics suspicions

Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee Chairperson Miyata and committee member Oh present the winning design of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Tokyo

$1.5m payment raises questions over Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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Tokyo 2020 unveils new logo after plagiarism claim

Sieng Sokchan (centre R), the captain of Cambodia's first women's wheelchair basketball team, working with teammates during a training session at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) centre in Battambang province. — AFP

Tokyo dreams fuel Cambodia's first disabled basketballers

An ambulance takes away a Vietnamese national, identified as 28-year old Chen Mei-Jih, to the hospital after she was extracted from the rubble at the Wei-Kuan complex which collapsed in the 6.4 magnitude earthquake, in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan. — AFP

Technology, ancient and modern, can help buildings survive quakes

British Olympic Association chairman Sebastian Coe poses at a photo session after a signing ceremony for the British team's Tokyo 2020 Olympic games preparation camp in Tokyo Monday. — AFP

No quick fix to crisis, says Coe

A combination of file pictures shows clockwise (from L) Gianni Infantino, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa, Jerome Champagne, Tokyo Sexwale and Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein — AFP

FIFA confirms final five for Feb. 26 presidential vote