A donation of ¥10 million (£520,000/$810,000/€730,000) has been made to launch The Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center, a new initiative designed to try to ensure that Japan's athletes are successful at Tokyo 2020. 

Karate will be able to submit a bid for inclusion in the 2024 Summer Paralympics after being accepted as a member of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) by the body's Governing Board.

The cost of the Japanese National Stadium that will form the centrepiece of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics has been confirmed at  ¥252 billion (£1.3 billion/$2 billion/€1.8 billion), in spite of a decision to postpone installation of a retractable roof until after the Games.

Matt Buchi has been appointed head coach of the United States’ men’s wheelchair basketball team for the 2015 Kitakyushu Champions’ Cup in Japan, the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) has announced.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has officially announced that Toshiaki Endo has been appointed Minister in charge of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Public broadcaster NHK has been awarded exclusive rights in Japan for all Paralympic Games until 2024 in an agreement hailed as the biggest in the Movement's broadcasting history.

Sports put forward for the second stage of the application process for Tokyo 2020 Olympic inclusion have been reacting to the decision of Japanese organisers to include them on the shortlist and trying to promote their chances in the hope they will evenutally be chosen. 

Being in Baku, the time difference for today’s announcement of sports shortlisted for the second stage of consideration for inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was rather convenient.

The Japanese Basketball Association (JBA) have been rewarded by the International Basketball Association’s (FIBA) for making progress in restricting the organisation by allowing their national teams to resume preparations for all competitions.

Tokyo 2020 has announced All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) as its first Official Partners, under the category of “Passenger air transportation services”.

Twenty-six International Olympic Committee (IOC)-recognised Federations have proposed events to be considered for inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, organisers have confirmed today following an Executive Board meeting in the Japanese capital.

World Bowling have launched their bid to be included in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic programme after officially submitting their application to be considered for inclusion as an additional event.

Japanese and International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials are closing in on a final venue plan for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but a solution acceptable to all parties is still proving elusive in one sport - cycling.

Sailing and 7-a-side football’s faint hopes of being included on the Tokyo 2020 programme appear to have been ended after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board confirmed their exclusion at a meeting in the Japanese capital, which concluded today.

Challenges facing modern sport, including doping, improving the representation of women in sport, as well as the future of Paralympic sport, were discussed by students at the Tsukuba International Academy for Sport Studies here today.