Japan

A Tokyo 2016 Olympic Games would generate the greatest prime-time TV audience in Olympic history according to the Bid’s Deputy Director General, Hidetoshi Maki.

Tokyo 2016 today received a significant boost after the proposed 2009 fiscal budget of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) allocated a fresh 100 billion yen, to the existing contingency fund for 2016 Games preparations.

The people of Japan continue to support the Tokyo 2016 Bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games according to the results of a new nationwide poll.

Tokyo 2016 passed a crucial milestone in its campaign to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with all 26 participating international federations accepting Tokyo's sports venue plans.

Tokyo 2016 accelerated into the new year on the back of two major events in Japan’s capital that saw athletes and sports enthusiasts come together in support of the Bid’s ‘Uniting Our Worlds’ vision.

Tokyo 2016 today finalised the venue plans that will see Japan’s capital host the most compact Olympic and Paralympic Games ever.

Tokyo 2016 Bid Ambassador Kanpei Hazama today began an epic 'Earth Marathon', which will see him run and sail 36,000km (23,000 miles) around the globe.

Japanese sports fans gathered on Friday for the Tokyo 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games Supporters Assembly to show support for the Olympic Movement and Tokyo 2016.

Tokyo 2016 welcomes some of the world's finest footballers for the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2008.

Honda is pulling out of Formula One, blaming the world economic crisis for plans to sell its team, according to UK press reports.

Tokyo’s bid for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games received a boost from the 7th Plenary Meeting of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC21).

Tokyo 2016 is celebrating the latest set of events in its ‘Olympics for All’ roadshow series, which have been uniting young and old with sport and the Olympic movement for over a year.

Tokyo has staged its biggest ever anti-terrorism exercise, in an attempt to prove its credentials for staging the 2016 Olympic Games, Reuters reports.

Officials from the Tokyo 2016 bid team insist its hosting prospects for the Summer Games will not be hit despite Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election, Reuters reports.

Italian automobile manufacturer, Fiat, extended its sponsorship deal of Yamaha's factory MotoGP team for the next two seasons.

The city of Tokyo has taken a global leadership position on environment and sustainability, adopting every environmental initiative put forward by planners at the C40 Climate Change Conference.