The country has changed vastly from that hopeful moment nearly six decades ago, and the Olympics this time around have come to represent something different and not entirely positive.
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Olympics Covid Cases Raise Tricky Questions About Testing
Frequent screening of healthy, vaccinated people will pick up even the mildest infections. How much testing is too much?
‘Anti-Sex’ Beds in the Olympic Village? A Social Media Theory is Soon Debunked
The coronavirus has forced a number of social distancing measures at the Summer Games, but the recyclable cardboard beds provided by organizers are not one of them.
Coco Gauff tests positive for the virus, another blow for the Tokyo Olympics.
Cases have now been identified within Tokyo’s Olympic Village, where thousands of athletes are staying during the Games that begin this week.
As Covid Outbreak Worsens, Fiji’s Athletes Board a Plane to the Olympics
Almost all passenger flights from the country were suspended until the end of July. So the team hopped a ride to Tokyo on a cargo plane carrying a shipment of frozen fish.
A Digital Cat Is Melting Hearts (and Napping a Lot) in Japan
The calico prances and dozes on a 26-by-62-foot LED billboard in Tokyo. It has drawn crowds in real life and sparked joy on social media.
Spectators Will Be Barred at Tokyo Olympics Amid New Covid Emergency
Organizers announced in June that domestic fans would be allowed, despite concerns that the Games could be a superspreader event. A sudden rise in cases upended those plans.
Tokyo Olympics Bans Alcohol at Events
The decision bowed to pressure from a Japanese public that is already deeply skeptical of hosting the Games amid the pandemic.
A Joyful Surprise at Japan’s Oldest Zoo: The Birth of Twin Pandas
After a four-year hiatus, two 15-year-old giant pandas at last found the mood and added a new draw for one of Tokyo’s biggest tourist attractions.
Tokyo Olympics Will Allow Domestic Spectators
The decision indicates a growing certainty that the Games will go ahead, despite months of concern that they could become a superspreader event.