Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed for a one-year delay of the Tokyo Olympics rather than two during talks with the head of the Olympic organizing committee. A two-year delay would have blown past ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 23 said he would accept a postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, depending on the decision by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC is now weighing a ...

Although President Donald Trump suggested postponing the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics due to the new coronavirus outbreak to reporters, he later expressed support to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he and International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach had been in full agreement on the need to postpone the Tokyo Olympics for about a year.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faced pointed questions from a leading ... The two discussed the problems that come with postponing the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, as well as policy measures to ...

Sasaki directed a performance at the Closing Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics in which then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerged on the stage as Super Mario. Seiko Hashimoto, the Games’ organizing ...

On July 8, 2022, in Nara, Japan, Shinzo Abe was shot twice with a homemade shotgun by Tetsuya Yamagami. Despite Abe’s ...

In 2016, he was watching the Closing Ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on TV at his apartment when then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerged in the spotlight as Super Mario. The performance mad ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on March 25 told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games was “very wise and great.” Trump said he supported the decision in a 40 ...

The option of postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games set to be held in Tokyo this summer is possible if it is difficult to hold the Games as usual, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a ...

Comments from Abe Shinzo and his widow Abe Akie suggest that they saw cowardice lurking behind Trump’s bravado.

The Olympics closed almost a month ago ... and a contentious decision to stage the Games during the pandemic. Suga succeeded Shinzo Abe, who resigned a year ago for health reasons.