Former chairman of business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Hironori Aoki is among three people to have been charged in court with bribing a former Tokyo 2020 chief executive.

The Governor of Hokkaido Naomichi Suzuki has admitted that the corruption scandals which surround the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have damaged Sapporo's bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics.

North Korea's suspension from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), imposed after it missed competing at Tokyo 2020, will be lifted at the end of this year, it was confirmed here today.

Japanese prosecutors are again searching units of advertising agencies ADK Holdings and Dentsu, who are under suspicion of rigging bids for test events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Advertising agency Hakuhodo has become the latest company linked to corruption allegations over their involvement in the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, with Japanese authorities searching its headquarters today.

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has celebrated the winners of a competition based around people's memories of Tokyo 2020.

The headquarters of Japanese advertising company Dentsu have been raided over allegations of bid-rigging for Tokyo 2020 test events as the corruption scandal surrounding the hosting of last year's Olympics widens.

The Mayor of the city which hosted Brazilian training camps during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has called for the link between the two communities to be continued.

Former Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori has claimed that Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy should take some of the blame for the war with Russia.

A female journalist has become the first person to be jailed for breaking Hong Kong’s national anthem law after waving a British colonial-era flag to celebrate Cheung Ka Long’s fencing gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Masahiro Hashimoto, Mayor of the Japanese city of Sakai, has received the Order of Honour from the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) for the hosting of its athletes and officials in a pre-Tokyo 2020 Olympics training camp last year.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) distributed the same funds to International Federations (IFs) for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as it did for the Rio 2016.

Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) President Yasuhiro Yamashita has revealed plans to create a committee aimed at enhancing anti-corruption measures.

The head of a Japanese advertising firm has handed in his resignation following his arrest in connection with the bribery case involving former Tokyo 2020 Executive Board member Haruyuki Takahashi.

Former Tokyo 2020 Executive Board member Haruyuki Takahashi has been served with a fourth bribery charge in Japan - this time in relation to cash allegedly received from mascot distributor Sun Arrow.