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The 2020 Summer Paralympics, branded as Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, is an ongoing international multi-sport parasports event that is currently being held from 24 August and 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such incident in less than a week, threatening to slow the country's sputtering inoculation campaign.

Japan's Okinawa region suspended the use of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday after another contamination was spotted, the local government said.

Recognize need to convene India and Sri Lanka Joint Commission

Hundreds of thousands of Asian women, mostly from China and Korean, were kidnapped and coerced into sexual servitude to Japanese troops

The medal-bite is a familiar photo opportunity for winning athletes at the Olympic Games. But one Japanese mayor took it a step further after he bit a softball player's gold medal without permission, causing widespread public outrage.

Team USA, whose 600-plus athletes competed in hundreds of events over 19 whirlwind days here, staged a thrilling comeback in the final hours of the 2020 Olympics to top the gold medal table for the third Summer Games in a row.

As the Olympics nears its close, here is a look at how it played out under strict restrictions to ensure a "safe and secure" Tokyo 2020 amid a COVID-19 pandemic.

Japan has carried out a threat to publicly shame people not complying with coronavirus border control measures, releasing the names of three people who broke quarantine rules after returning from overseas.

Over 750,000 doses of the AstraZeneca will arrive in Sri Lanka today evening from Japan, through the WHO's Covax facility. The government said priority will be given to those who received their first doses.