The torch ends its round-the-world jaunt in August in Beijing, China, host city of the 2008 Olympics. Students for a Free Tibet Japan has announced plans to demonstrate at the Nagano leg of the ...

He recently published a book about Japan's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and he hopes to be in Fukushima for the start of the torch relay next March. On October 10, 1964, I was just one year ...

Japan - August 8, 2021. The Olympic torch and cauldron are seen with Paris 2024 displayed on the big screen during the closing ceremony REUTERS/Toby Melville “The Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay ...

Emotion dominated the opening as Hirohito lit the Olympic flame with a torch handed to him by Yoshinori ... that won triple jumper Miklo Oda, Japan's first ever-gold medal in the 1928 Games.