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UK: Protesters Gather Outside Glasgow Hampden Park Ahead Of Women’s Euro 2025 Qualifier Versus Israel

Protesters gathered outside Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow on Friday, May 31, ahead of the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifier match between Scotland and Israel to protest against Israel's military operation in Gaza.

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UK: Pro-Palestine Protest In Glasgow Ahead Of World Athletics Indoor Championships

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in Glasgow on Tuesday, February 27, ahead of the World Athletics Indoor Championships, which will start on March 1, protesting against the participation of Israeli athletes.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympics operations exec arrested over bid rigging

Journalists gather in front of a building housing the head office of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo after prosecutors arrested a former operations executive at the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee the same day on suspicion of playing a leading role in bid rigging for contracts related to games test events. The executive and Dentsu officials are suspected of collusion.

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Tokyo 2020 chief Mori at coordination meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C), head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, addresses a coordination meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014. Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Hakubun Shimomura are sitting left and right, respectively, to Mori.

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IOC's Coates in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission Chairman John Coates (L) shakes hands with former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, president of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, during a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 19, 2014. Coates was visiting Tokyo for the second time to monitor the progress of the city's preparations for the Games.

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IOC proposes new venue for 2020 Olympic basketball

TOKYO, Japan - John Coats (L), chairman of the Coordination Commission of the International Olympic Committee, and Yoshiro Mori, head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, speak to the press in the Japanese capital on Nov. 19, 2014, about Coats' proposal to hold the basketball competition in Osaka, western Japan, at the Summer Games.

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Japan, IOC discuss preparedness for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, makes a speech at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 18, 2014, during the second round of talks with the Japanese organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to review progress in preparations for the Summer Games.

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Japan, IOC discuss preparedness for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, speaks at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 18, 2014, during the second round of talks with the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission to review progress in preparations for the Summer Games.

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Japan, IOC meet on preparedness for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates (R), chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, president of the country's organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, attend the second round of talks at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 18, 2014, to review progress in preparations for the Summer Games.

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Mori briefs Dutch royal couple on 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R), president of the organizing committee of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, explains the games' plans to visiting Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima at Tokyo's Toranomon Hills skyscraper on Oct. 31, 2014.

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Tokyo 2020 President Mori unveils cost estimate

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, president of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, delivers a speech in the Japanese capital on Oct. 24, 2014, saying that nearly 1 trillion yen will be needed to implement the initial construction plan for the event.

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Rio committee president Nuzman in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Carlos Nuzman (C), president of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee, and Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (2nd from L) visit the National Stadium in Tokyo on Oct. 11, 2014, before the stadium is disassembled for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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IOC mulls Tokyo 2020 Olympic venue changes

TOKYO, Japan - International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coats (L) and Yoshiro Mori, chief of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, shake hands following a press conference in Tokyo on June 27, 2014. Coates and other members of the commission were visiting Tokyo for the first time since the Japanese capital won the right to host the Summer Games.

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IOC mulls Tokyo 2020 Olympic venue changes

TOKYO, Japan - International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coats (L) and Yoshiro Mori, chief of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 27, 2014. Coates and other members of the commission were visiting Tokyo for the first time since the Japanese capital won the right to host the Summer Games.

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Tokyo Olympics organizers Mori, Masuzoe speak to reporters

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiro Mori (L), chairman of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe answer questions from reporters in the Japanese capital on June 12, 2014, following their meeting held to review venue plans for the 2020 event.

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IOC official in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates (L), chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Organizing Committee, hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 4, 2014, the final day of the commission's three-day visit to Tokyo.

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IOC official in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates (L), chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Organizing Committee, hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 4, 2014, the final day of the commission's three-day visit to Tokyo.

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IOC official in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates (L), chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Organizing Committee, hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 4, 2014, the final day of the commission's three-day visit to Tokyo.

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Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Executive Board of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games - (from L) Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, organizing committee president and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, organizing committee honorary president and Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai, and organizing committee chief executive officer and Daiwa Institute of Research Chairman Toshiro Muto - pose for photos after a meeting where all 34 members of the executive board met on March 26, 2014.

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Ex-PM Mori

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, chairman of 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee, delivers a speech in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 20, 2014.

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Ex-PM Mori

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, chairman of 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee, delivers a speech in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 20, 2014.

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Mori speaks at JOC reception

SOCHI, Russia - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), gives a speech at a reception at the 2014 JOC Japan House in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 10, 2014.

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Japanese PM Abe, former PM Mori at figure skating team event

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) and former prime minister Yoshiro Mori (R), president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), observe the figure skating team event at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 8, 2014.

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Maestro Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. He will make a comeback in August 2013 at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, conducting French composer Maurice Ravel's opera "The Child and the Spells," the festival's organizing committee said Feb. 18, 2013. Ozawa has suspended public musical activities since March 2012 to recover his strength and concentrate on rehabilitation after his condition deteriorated.

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(1)Runners relay Olympic torch in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - With the Olympic flame in hand, a member of the Athens Olympic Organizing Committee alights from the plane from Australia at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 6. The 53-kilometer torch relay through the Japanese capital began at the Daiba waterfront area near Tokyo bay as part of the flame's journey through the world's five continents.

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S. Korea confers sports order on 2 Japanese soccer officials

TOKYO, Japan - Sho Nasu (2nd from L), head of the Japanese World Cup organizing committee (JAWOC), and Japan Football Association head Shunichiro Okano (2nd from R) are awarded South Korea's highest sports order on July 14 by S. Korean Ambassador to Japan Cho Se Hyung (R). Nasu received the award for last year's soccer extravaganza Japan and South Korea co-hosted, and Okano in recognition of his efforts for the event's success.

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(1)World Cup pre-final event held on floating stage

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A World Cup pre-final event is held June 28 on a giant floating stage in Yokohama, the site of the June 30 final World Cup match, with live performances by local and international artists. The event on the ''Mega-Park Floating Stage,'' hosted by the Japanese World Cup organizing committee (JAWOC), comes after a similar event held before the May 31 opening of the World Cup soccer tournament by co-hosts South Korea. (World Cup 2002)

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Luxurious World Cup meal unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese organizing committee for the World Cup (JAWOC) unveiled April 25 a luxurious meal to be provided with high-priced World Cup tickets at a Tokyo hotel.

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JAWOC launches paper cranes project for World Cup final

TOKYO, Japan - Children at a Tokyo primary school hold paper cranes they folded April 19 as the Japanese Organizing Committee for the 2002 World Cup (JAWOC) launched its ''Wings of a Dream'' project, the plan to drop around 2 million paper cranes onto the pitch at the end of the World Cup final in Yokohama.

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Long umbrellas among banned items at World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Takahisa Ishida, security chief of the Japanese World Cup organizing committee (JAWOC), says at a media briefing session April 2 that knives, long umbrellas and rolls of ticker tape will all be banned from World Cup stadiums in Japan at this summer's finals the country is hosting with South Korea.

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23 teams to set up camps in Japan for World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Officials representing 32 national soccer teams qualified for the World Cup finals attend a meeting with the Japan and South Korean organizing committees in Tokyo on Feb. 27. JAWOC, the Japanese organizing committee said 23 teams will hold training camps in Japan in their tune-ups for the World Cup to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea.

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World Cup stamps issued

TOKYO, Japan - Junji Ogura (L), deputy secretary general of the Japanese organizing committee for next year's World Cup finals JAWOC, is presented with a sheet of commemorative stamps Japan issued May 31, one year to the day before the opening of the World Cup finals to be co-hosted with South Korea.

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Ticket drawing for 2002 World Cup Soccer kicks off

TOKYO, Japan - Sho Nasu, chairman of the Japanese organizing committee for the 2002 World Cup (JAWACS), on May 16 kicks off the first computer drawing to select people eligible to buy tickets for the matches in next year's event to be co-hosted with South Korea. JAWOC organizers said the tickets for some 220,000 seats would be made available in the first lottery pick done by computer.

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Int'l liquor festival opens in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Some 170 brews, including sake, distilled spirits and local beer, are exhibited at the Kyoto International Liquor Festival, which opened April 10 in Kyoto. The festival, sponsored by an organizing committee of wine lovers and Japanese liquor companies, was last held in Japan 10 years ago. It aims at popularizing Japanese alcoholic beverages overseas.

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(1)World Cup ticket sales on Internet postponed

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Ando (R), secretary general of the Japanese World Cup organizing committee (JAWOC), speaks at a news conference Feb. 15 on the FIFA decision to put off Internet ticket applications in Japan and South Korea for next year's World Cup finals to be co-hosted by the two countries.

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(2)World Cup ticket sales on Internet postponed

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese World Cup organizing committee (JAWOC) announces at its official website just before midnight Feb. 14 that Internet ticket applications in Japan and South Korea for next year's World Cup finals have been postponed due to ''technological problems'' on the part of the world soccer governing body FIFA.

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S. Korea regrets Japan's change of 2002 World Cup title

SEOUL, South Korea - Chung Mong Joon, head of the South Korean football association and co-chairman of the (South) Korean Organizing Committee for the 2002 FIFA World Cup (KOWOC), attends a news conference in Seoul on Jan. 16. Chung said it was ''regrettable'' that Japan has apparently reneged on an earlier agreement and changed the word order on its Japanese ticket application forms for the 2002 World Cup from ''Korea-Japan'' to ''Japan-Korea''.

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JAWOC calls for names for 2002 World Cup mascots

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Endo, secretary general of the Japanese organizing committee for the 2002 World Cup (JAWOC), calls for names for the event's mascots at a press conference Jan. 16 in Tokyo. The announcement coincided with the start of a 500-day countdown to the opening of the finals, which are to be co-hosted with South Korea.

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JAWOC to collect magazine featuring 'inappropriate' cartoon

OSAKA, Japan - The Japanese organizing committee for the 2002 World Cup (JAWOC) says April 13 it will collect some 9,000 copies of a JAWOC magazine featuring a cartoon strip that could be offensive to Koreans. The cartoon depicts a Korean-speaking wolf threatening a Japanese-speaking raccoon dog with a knife.

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S. Korean World Cup committee seeks Japan's cooperation

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) shakes hands with Park Seh Jik, the head of South Korea's organizing committee for the 2002 World Cup soccer finals, before their meeting at Obuchi's official residence in Tokyo on June 28. In the meeting, Park asked Obuchi for the Japanese government's cooperation in making the unprecedented co-hosting of the tournament a success.

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2002 World Cup logo unveiled

Yasuhiko Endo (L), secretary-general of the Japanese Organizing Committee of the 2002 World Cup, and Shunichiro Okano, president of the Football Association of Japan, unveil the official logo for the 2002 World Cup in Tokyo on May 31. The logo features an image of the famous golden trophy within a multicolored circle, designed to represent human characteristics such as passion, strength and hope.

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Publishing company Kadokawa's chairman

Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022, amid speculation that the Japanese publishing company made payments to Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive, in exchange for preferential treatment in the process of selecting Olympic sponsors.

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Publishing company Kadokawa's chairman

Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022, amid speculation that the Japanese publishing company made payments to Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive, in exchange for preferential treatment in the process of selecting Olympic sponsors.

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Japan not to send gov't officials to Beijing Olympics

Combined file photo shows (from L) Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, Yasuhiro Yamashita, head of the Japanese Olympic Committee, and Kazuyuki Mori, head of the Japanese Paralympic Committee. Japan plans to send the three to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics while refraining from sending a government delegation to the games, a decision seen as in line with a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the sporting spectacle over China's human rights record.

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Tokyo Olympic chief "proud" of hosting games despite pandemic

The president of the Tokyo Games organizing committee said Monday she is "proud" of Japan having hosted the Olympics and Paralympics despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at a press conference a day after the closing of the Paralympics, Seiko Hashimoto said the organizers held the Tokyo Games after a one-year postponement without major problems and with an emphasis on the safety of all participants and the Japanese public.

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Meeting after Tokyo Olympics

Seiko Hashimoto (R), president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, and Yasuhiro Yamashita, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, meet reporters on Aug. 10, 2021, in Tokyo after holding talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Meeting after Tokyo Olympics

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, speaks to reporters on Aug. 10, 2021, in Tokyo after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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IOC President Bach in Tokyo

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is pictured during his courtesy visit to Seiko Hashimoto, head of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, in the Japanese capital on July 13, 2021, wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Pool photo)

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IOC President Bach in Tokyo

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is pictured during his courtesy visit to Seiko Hashimoto, head of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, in the Japanese capital on July 13, 2021, wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Pool photo)

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IOC President Bach in Tokyo

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (far L) and Seiko Hashimoto (far R), head of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, hold talks in the Japanese capital on July 13, 2021, wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Pool photo)