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The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has received a total of 26 applications from international sports federations proposing events to be included in the summer Olympic Games in five years' time.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has become the latest body to submit a proposal to feature at the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games.

Japan’s Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura has given assurances that Tokyo’s new National Stadium will be completed in time to serve as the centrepiece of the 2020 summer Olympic Games.

World Bowling, the unified international body for ninepin and tenpin bowling, has submitted an application for the sport to be considered for inclusion in the programme for the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games.

Vero Communications has been appointed by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) to advise and support the governing body’s campaign to include disabled sailing in the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

The Diet, Japan's parliament, has enacted a bill to create a ministerial post for affairs related to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe has continued on the offensive over the Japanese government’s new financial plans for the city’s National Stadium project, stating the Y50bn (€359.4m/$407.9m) bill the metropolitan government is being asked to foot is “out of order”.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has added Sapporo as a new host city for the inaugural edition of its Premier12 baseball competition, which will be staged in Japan and Chinese Taipei from November 8-21.

Japan's Sports Minister, Hakubun Shimomura, has called for the installation of temporary seating and for the installation of a retractable roof to be postponed for Tokyo’s new National Stadium, the venue intended to be the centrepiece of the 2020 Olympic Games and Japan’s staging of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

The Japanese government has passed a bill to create a new agency that will seek to coordinate sports administration ahead of Tokyo’s staging of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has opened the application process for additional events bidding to be added to the sporting programme for the 2020 summer Olympic Games.

America’s Cup organisers have bolstered the line-up of competitors ahead of the start of the campaign for the 2017 edition of the sailing showpiece by unveiling a new challenger team from Japan.

A new men’s basketball league is set to be launched in Japan in late 2016, with nearly 50 clubs from the country’s various competitions, including the BJ-League and the National Basketball League, having applied to compete.

Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have announced that additional events for the summer Games will be drawn from sports whose international federations (IFs) are already recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are currently not included in the programme.

The Abbott World Marathon Majors (AWMM) series has announced that it will expand to include elite wheelchair racing.

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has announced that Japan will host the 2015 and 2016 editions of its Club World Cup tournament.