While the eyes of the world will soon be upon Paris and the sporting competition, we take a look back at the last summer Olympics, which took place in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and marked the ...

The notoriously crowded Tokyo morning rush-hour trains are sparsely populated. Classrooms are eerily empty. Store shelves are bare. People with masks pop up throughout a city fearing the spread of the ...

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The decrease in emissions from flights has got to make a difference, right? The images of empty stadiums as athletes perform near-impossible feats at the Olympic Games in Tokyo is another sobering ...