Residents of Japan will be able to apply for tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games from May 9, the organizing committee said on Thursday.

Researchers have designed two types of nano-sized building blocks that can automatically connect into cubes and scramble back into individual components based on the temperature of their environment. This accomplishment is another step towards chemical systems that more realistically mimic life. 'Imagine mixing two liquids together, like ink and water. They will automatically do the simple chemical process of dispersing until they are perfectly mixed,' said Professor Shuichi Hiraoka of the University of Tokyo.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on April 26, a month ahead of Trump's planned visit to Tokyo in late May, an administration official said on Thursday.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathons will start at 06:00 local time to avoid extreme heat.

Basketball champions at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will play six games to earn their gold medals instead of eight

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathons will start at 06:00 local time to avoid extreme heat.

Next year's Tokyo Olympics could become known as the get-up-early games

Next year's men's and women’s Olympic marathons will start at 6 a.m. local time to try to avoid the worst of Tokyo's blazing summer heat, organizers said on Tuesday.

Olympic 100 meters breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has ruled out adding the 200 meters to his schedule at next year's Tokyo Games.

Olympic champion Adam Peaty rules out a bid for two individual gold medals at Tokyo 2020 and will focus on defending his 100m breaststroke title.