Japan

Tokyo 2016 welcomes some of the world's finest footballers for the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2008.

Honda is pulling out of Formula One, blaming the world economic crisis for plans to sell its team, according to UK press reports.

Tokyo’s bid for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games received a boost from the 7th Plenary Meeting of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC21).

Tokyo 2016 is celebrating the latest set of events in its ‘Olympics for All’ roadshow series, which have been uniting young and old with sport and the Olympic movement for over a year.

Tokyo has staged its biggest ever anti-terrorism exercise, in an attempt to prove its credentials for staging the 2016 Olympic Games, Reuters reports.

Officials from the Tokyo 2016 bid team insist its hosting prospects for the Summer Games will not be hit despite Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election, Reuters reports.

Italian automobile manufacturer, Fiat, extended its sponsorship deal of Yamaha's factory MotoGP team for the next two seasons.

The city of Tokyo has taken a global leadership position on environment and sustainability, adopting every environmental initiative put forward by planners at the C40 Climate Change Conference.

The International Evaluation Commission will visit the four Candidate Cities bidding for the 2016 Olympic Games in April and May of 2009.

Plans to expand rugby’s Super 14 competition may include the fast-tracking a Japan-based team, according to the Canberra Times.

Tokyo 2016's Bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games reached for the skies as Official Bid Partners, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL), unveiled Tokyo 2016 branded planes.

Tokyo 2016 kicked off the one-year countdown to select the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games' host city by staging a celebration at Midtown - the latest redevelopment in the heart of Japan's capital.

The plans of Japan’s newly launched Tourism Agency to encourage 20million foreign visitors to the country by 2020 have been endorsed byTokyo 2016.

Tokyo 2016 and the Japan Olympic Academy (JOA) hosted a lecture by Dr. Gene Sutton, Executive Board Member of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and head of the Canadian Olympic Academy (COA), to discuss education related activities in Canada, host country of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Russia’s minister of regional development says he has been inspired by Beijing 2008 and that the Sochi Organising Committee will analyse every detail of the Olympic and Paralympic experience to ensure the 2014 Winter Games are equally impressive.

Spanish football club, Real Madrid and Total Sports Asia (TSA) has appointed Japanese digital content developer, MLC Inc, to launch the official mobile website of Real Madrid in Japan.