Japan's Yui Ohashi won swimming gold in the women's 400-meter individual medley in her home Olympics on Sunday. (Kyodo)

Japan's Abe Hifumi and Abe Uta have become the first siblings to win judo golds at the same Olympics. (NHK)

Japan's Horigome Yuto has won gold in the first-ever Olympic skateboarding event. (NHK)

Restaurant and bar operators in Tokyo are angry at the metropolitan government over a new program to provide coronavirus relief to those meeting requests for business suspensions and other measures, which comes as an existing aid program faces delays. (Japan Times)

Typhoon Nepartak is expected to approach Japan's main island of Honshu from the Pacific around Tuesday, with rowing events for the Tokyo Olympics already rescheduled to avoid possible disruption should it hit the capital, the weather agency said Saturday. (Japan Today)

Police in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on Friday arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of killing an 85-year-old woman at her home last week. (Japan Today)

Emperor Naruhito has welcomed foreign dignitaries visiting Japan to attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. (NHK)

This year’s sakura-shaped Olympic torch has finally completed its long journey from Athens to Tokyo. The cauldron has been lit, and the Games of the XXXII Olympiad have officially begun. (fastcompany.com)

A Japanese super-fan who spent $40,000 on tickets for the Tokyo Olympics has been left 'heartbroken' by the ban on spectators which dashed his hopes of setting a world record. (Daily Mail)

Kohei Uchimura's gymnastics career is over. The Japanese star can take solace knowing that the sport the two-time Olympic champion redefined appears to be in good hands in his home country. (wbaltv.com)

Japan's Naohisa Takato hs won the first gold medal for the host nation, beating Taiwan's Yang Yung-wei in the final of the men's 60 kg judo. Takato, a bronze medalist at the Rio Games in 2016, cried after his victory in an empty Nippon Budokan, the legendary martial arts and concert hall. (Nikkei)

The Japanese government's cybersecurity body says many public- and private-sector websites briefly went down early Friday. (NHK)

Let's discuss the most memorable looks from the 2020 / 2021 Olympics Opening Ceremony in Tokyo, Japan! (Clevver Style)

Who will follow them as the next sporting legends? Here is the lowdown on the new wave of top athletes. (Nikkei)

A UNESCO committee has requested that a Japanese facility dedicated to a group of World Heritage sites provide more explanation on former wartime workers from the Korean Peninsula. (NHK)

In his first U.S. television interview, Japanese Prime Minister Suga speaks with NBC News’ Keir Simmons about the challenges of staging the Olympics in a pandemic, relations with the Biden administration and more. (NBC News)

It's burning hot in Kyoto now, so please enjoy some sounds of Kyoto in summer without actually having to feel the heat! (Good Old Houses Japan)

French president Macron is expected in #Tokyo on Friday for a 36-hour visit during which he will attend the opening of the Summer Olympics and meet Japanese leaders. ( FRANCE 24 English)

The Blue Impulse aerobatic team from Japan's Air Self-Defense Force drew the five Olympic rings with colored smoke in the sky above an area near the new Japan National Stadium on early Friday afternoon, ahead of the official opening of the Tokyo Olympics later in the day. (Jiji)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga met with the CEO of Pfizer Inc on Friday, requesting faster delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, the Nikkei reported, as the Olympic host nation struggles with a slow rollout of vaccine amid a surge in infections. (kfgo.com)

Japanese corporate sponsors of the Tokyo Olympics have poured $3 billion into the Games, the largest-ever amount contributed by domestic companies. (fortune.com)

The Olympic flame has reached the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building after a 4-month journey across Japan. (NHK)

TOKYO -- Five years after its launch, Pokemon Go monsters still run amok in the world and are chased by a legion of fans. (Nikkei)

TOKYO - Japan's global superstar Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity. (gmanetwork.com)

VICE World News host Hanako Montgomery travels to Okinawa, a former American territory, to find out why the term “Amejo” sparks controversy among Japanese women. (VICE Asia)