日本の安倍晋三首相は、2020年夏季東京オリンピックを延期せざるを得ないかもしれないと発言した。の英語

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games may have to be postponed.

I really hope the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will unify the Japanese people and help restore our passion, pride and confidence.

When I made a speech at an International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in support of Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Olympics, I was thinking of my lost leg and also of my hometown that was badly damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

World War II ended and the Olympics were revived in 1948 in London, but the losing countries of the war, Germany and Japan, were not invited.

Beijing hosted the Summer Games in 2008 and will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

For example, the World Figure Skating Championships were supposed to be held in Tokyo in late March but were delayed more than one month.

In order to qualify for the Olympics, Japan has to go through the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women to be held next June.

The head of the Mathematical Olympiad Foundation of Japan said, "In Japan, about 1,000 people take part in the preliminary contest each year. We hope to increase the number to about 10,000."

The top Japanese medalists in the men’s and women’s events qualified for the Olympic Winter Games to be held in Vancouver from Feb. 12.

It will be the first Winter Olympics to be held in China and the fourth in Asia, after Sapporo in 1972, Nagano in 1998, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018.

Wrestlers who won both last December's national championships and this event qualified for the world championships in September.

He said, "The Olympics have a different significance from the world championships. Winning the gold at the Olympics is like a dream come true."

The championships were also the qualifying meet for this summer's London Olympics, and 27 swimmers were selected for the national Olympic team.

Takahashi Naoko, 30, the Sydney Olympic gold medalist in the marathon is going to run in the Berlin Marathon on Sept. 29.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to disqualify Adrian Annus of Hungary, the gold medalist in the men's hammer throw at the Athens Olympics, for a doping violation.

The Japan Tennis Association (JTA) has announced that Sugiyama Ai, Japan's female tennis ace, intends to participate in the Athens Olympics.

Before the Olympics, he had won three consecutive gold medals in the individual all-around event at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.

At the Vancouver Olympics, the competition for the gold medal between Asada and South Korea’s Kim Yu Na is expected to attract a lot of attention.

The sixth Asian Winter Games were held from Jan. 28 to Feb. 4 in Changchun, China.

Medal hopes are rising for the three female figure skaters who will represent Japan at the Turin Olympic Winter Games.

The 47th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) was held in Slovenia and all six of the contestants from Japan won medals.

He said, "It was a long rest but I don't feel any different. I'm as prepared as when I entered the last two Olympics."

At the ninth World Championships in Athletics held in Paris, Japan finished with one silver medal, and three bronze medals.

Takahashi Naoko, the gold medalist in the women's marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, could not win a ticket to the Athens Olympics.

Before she retires, she will participate in two more races: the Berlin Marathon in Germany in September and the Tokyo Marathon in February of next year.

There will not be a baseball event at the London Olympics in 2012, so Japan will fight hard for the gold medal in Beijing.

The third annual Women's World Series of baseball will be held on the Gold Coast of Australia from Aug. 25.

His announcement came at the end of the national swimming championships that were held from April 4 to 10.

This broke the world record of 2 minutes 7.28 seconds set by Daniel Gyurta of Hungary at the London Olympics.

The speed skater Kato Joji, 20, has perhaps the best chance of any Japanese athlete for a gold medal at the Turin Olympic Winter Games.