The organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games has stressed it has not started discussions on whether to suspend or postpone the Games due to the ongoing new coronavirus outbreak.
Committee Director General Toshiro Muto told reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday that the basic policy is to prepare for a safe Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Japan's heath ministry says a resident of Tokyo in his 80s died of pneumonia on Wednesday after contracting the new coronavirus.
It is the seventh confirmed case of infection in Japan that resulted in death. Four were passengers of the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
The organizers of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games are under pressure to come up with clear guidelines on how to deal with the new coronavirus infection.
The Olympic flame will start making its way across Japan in late March. The organizers say it's not possible to push that date back.
Organizers of the Tokyo Marathon are planning to cancel entries from the general public for the event to be held on March 1 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
About 170 male and female runners invited from Japan and abroad are expected to take part in the race.
Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games have revealed the motto for the games: "United by Emotion."
Each Olympic event has featured a motto since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul.
A hospital in Sagamihara City near Tokyo says one member of staff is confirmed to have the new coronavirus.
The hospital said on its website that the worker had been treating a resident of Kanagawa Prefecture who died last week.
The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed five more cases of the new coronavirus in the capital on Sunday.
They include a doctor in his 60s, who works at a hospital in Tokyo's Ota Ward. He had contact with a nurse who has already been confirmed to have the coronavirus.
Tokyo metropolitan government officials say eight more people have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
The officials say seven of the eight came into close contact with a taxi driver who was found to be infected with the virus on Thursday.
Participants in the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympic Games held a rehearsal on Saturday in the city of Hamura, western Tokyo.
The rehearsal was staged by Japan's Olympics organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and sponsor companies.
Organizers of the Tokyo Marathon are asking registered runners residing in China to refrain from joining in this year's event due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
A total of around 38,000 runners are expected to participate in the full marathon or in the 10-kilometer race on March 1. About 1,800 of them are living in China.
A taxi driver in Tokyo has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Japan's health ministry is investigating how he was infected.
The International Paralympic Committee will open its first museum on athletes and the history of the Paralympic movement.
The museum will be located at the COREDO Muromachi Terrace commercial complex in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district.
Another plane carrying Japanese evacuees from the epicenter in China has arrived in Tokyo. It's the third flight of its kind this week.
The chartered plane landed at Haneda Airport on Friday morning, after picking up 149 people in Wuhan.
A chartered plane carrying Japanese evacuees from the epicenter in China has arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.
Japan's third chartered flight took off from Haneda Airport for Wuhan last night.