The Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame is now heading to Athens, but the Lighting Ceremony here was interrupted by protests over China's human rights record. 

Kabuki actor Kankuro Nakamura VI has ignited the final cauldron at the Citizen’s Plaza here in Tokyo to set the seal on the 121-day journey of the Torch Relay around Japan.

The Torch Relay has continued its journey towards the Olympic Stadium in very subdued circumstances with another "alternative lighting" celebration.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will not carry the Olympic Torch this week as it completes its 121 day journey to Tokyo 2020.

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.

The Torch Relay for the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo returned to public roads in Iwate and Miyagi, areas devastated by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake.

The Tokyo 2020 Flame has reached the Olympic marathon venue of Sapporo, but only a single runner carried the Torch before lighting the celebratory cauldron.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has sent a message describing the arrival of the Olympic Flame in Hiroshima as “a universal call for peace".

The Olympic Torch will not now visit the hometown of Mikio Oda, Japan’s first Olympic champion, after a decision to "change the format of the Relay given the current status of COVID-19" in Hiroshima Prefecture.

Okayama has become the latest prefecture to announce that the Olympic Torch Relay will be taken off public roads there.

The Olympic Torch is now on a two day "transit" journey way to Okinawa.

A positive coronavirus case has been linked to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay for the first time as organisers continue to face challenges in holding the event against the backdrop of a pandemic.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is expected to visit Japan in May to attend the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay and meet Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.