Many volunteers recruited to help visitors to the Tokyo Olympics are finding themselves without duties now that the Games lack spectators at most of the venues, due to the coronavirus.
The Tokyo Metropolitan government has canceled all voluntary activities initially assigned to volunteers it had recruited. They had been asked to work outside the venues to help visitors to the Games.
The prefectural government of Saitama, north of Tokyo, has asked Olympic volunteers who lost their assignments due to the Games spectator ban to work around venues.
Saitama is hosting golf, basketball and other sports.
Surfing and skateboarding have made their Olympic debuts on day three of the Tokyo Games, and Japan secured its second gold medal.
Japan's Ohashi Yui won the women's 400-meter individual medley. The 25-year-old swimmer has struggled to improve her performance amid injuries and health problems. She said she didn't imagine she would win and thanked her teammates. The silver and bronze medals went to US swimmers.
Surfing and skateboarding are making their Olympic debuts on day three of the Tokyo Games on Sunday, as Japanese tennis superstar Osaka Naomi begins her campaign.
Osaka was the final torch bearer at the opening ceremony on Friday, and will face off against China's Zheng Saisai on the court.
Ten more coronavirus cases linked to the Olympics have been confirmed including two athletes who came from overseas. This brings the total of Games-related cases since the beginning of this month to 132.
The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee issued the results of the latest PCR testing on Sunday.
The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has announced that one athlete who came from overseas and one person related to the Games who is staying in the athletes' village have been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus on Saturday.
The committee also said 15 others, including 14 contract workers living in Japan, have tested positive for the virus.
A Myanmar soccer player awaiting a decision on his asylum application in Japan will join a professional football club in Yokohama as a trainee.
Pyae Lyan Aung came to Japan in May as a goalkeeper of Myanmar's national team to play in a World Cup qualifier.
The long-awaited Tokyo Olympics have officially kicked off. The Games were postponed by one year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Following strict anti-virus protocols, more than 11,000 athletes from about 200 countries and territories are streaming in to compete in a record 33 sports.
The opening ceremony has kicked off for the world's biggest sporting event, amid a pandemic.
Japan's Emperor came to welcome the opening of the Tokyo Olympics --- the culmination of many years of preparations and set-backs.
The Olympic flame has reached the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building after a 4-month journey across Japan.
The torch relay started from the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima on March 25. After traveling across Japan, the Olympic flame entered Tokyo, the host city of the Olympics and Paralympics, on July 9.
Japan's Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has started a series of meetings with foreign dignitaries visiting the country for Friday's opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
But only about 15 countries and organizations have sent their representatives to Japan, partly due to the spread of the coronavirus.
The opening ceremony of the postponed Tokyo Olympics takes place on Friday. Attention is focused on how far the organizers can stop the spread of coronavirus infections among athletes and staff during the event.
The ceremony will be held at the National Stadium in central Tokyo. The Games were postponed by one year due to the pandemic. It is the first time in 57 years for the Japanese capital to host the Olympics.
Players of the British women's football team have taken the knee before their first match at the Tokyo Olympics to express their opposition to racism.
They made the gesture before the match with Chile at a stadium in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido on Wednesday.
A member of the Ugandan Olympic national team who was listed as missing in Japan has arrived in Tokyo, accompanied by police.
Julius Ssekitoleko, a 20-year-old weightlifter, disappeared from a hotel in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Friday. He left a note saying that he would not return to his country and wanted to work in Japan, as life in Uganda is difficult.