Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is to meet with World Athletics officials tomorrow as the Japanese capital's bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships steps up a gear.

Kohei Uchimura, Japan’s 2012 and 2016 Olympic men’s all-around champion, made an emotional farewell to competition in a specially staged exhibition at a packed Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.

A new date in September has been confirmed for Russian President’s Cup in Tokyo, which also serves as the Japan Sambo Championships.

Ice dance world champions Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov and world pairs champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov begin their Grand Prix of Figure Skating season at the NHK Trophy in Tokyo tomorrow.

From time to time athletics witnesses landmark contests where more than one competitor betters an existing world record. Thirty years ago tomorrow (August 30) it happened in the long jump at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, when Mike Powell and Carl Lewis took the long jump to new lengths.

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons called for a more inclusive society outside of the Paralympic Games period in his speech at the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony.

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Torch Relay begins in Japan tomorrow, lasting for 13 days until the Games are due to commence on August 24.

Masatake Yamanaka has been re-elected as President of the Baseball Federation of Japan (BFJ).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session here in Tokyo next week is set to be the first held face-to-face since early 2020.

Tokyo has officially entered a state of emergency period lasting until August 22 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the restrictions here due to last for the duration of the upcoming Olympic Games.

When World Athletics President Sebastian Coe visited Tokyo’s rebuilt Olympic stadium for the first time, he admitted: "I saw a stadium that will be a fitting venue for a future World Championships in track and field."

The Olympic Torch has begun its journey around Tokyo prefecture on a rainy morning after an unveiling ceremony as a small group of protesters held banners calling for the Games to be cancelled.

The Olympic Torch Relay is set to be conducted away from public roads when it arrives in Tokyo prefecture on July 9.

Germany’s Martin Wolfram prevented a British clean sweep of men’s gold at the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Diving World Cup in Tokyo - the final Olympic qualifier and a test event for this year's Olympic Games.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has approved the introduction of stricter COVID-19 measures in Tokyo, Kyoto and Okinawa to halt a potential rise in cases.