After a year-long delay, the Tokyo Olympics' opening ceremony is ... and just over a week before the opening ceremony, Japan entered a state of emergency and local fans were barred as well.

It has been a LONG time coming, people, but we are finally, finally watching the 2020 Olympics ... this year's opening ceremony had to be scaled down, but there were still a few ~moments ...

In contemporary times, the standard for these events was set by the overwhelming spectacle of the opening ceremony at Beijing ... of a platform to show off Japanese culture. The first segment ...

Phillip) APAP Members of Team Mali arrive during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP ...

The Tokyo Olympics officially begin Friday with the opening ceremony in Japan. U.S. flag-bearers are Sue Bird (women's basketball) and Eddy Alvarez (baseball). Roughly 200 members of U.S ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of this morning’s Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony ... Almost a simulacra of an Opening Ceremony, masked Japanese Emperor Naruhito entertained around ...

And with that, the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo has concluded. The Tokyo Olympics were officially declared open by Japan’s Emperor Naruhito. And over the course of the ...

The typical 21st-century Olympics opening ceremony ... The 2008 Beijing ceremony enlisted 15,000 performers. Sydney 2000 had giant glowing jellyfish. It’s not hard to imagine Japan—land ...

ratings for the opening ceremony reached a peak of 54.6 percent at the start of the athletes’ parade. The large Japanese viewership contrasts sharply with the weak ratings for the Olympics thus ...

As expected, the opening ceremony ... Olympics come with numerous asterisks. For starters, the Games were delayed by a full year due to the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has put Japan's ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2008. The Tokyo Olympics officially kicked off in Japan on Friday, and while the opening ceremony had serious sparkle, the gravity of the past year also took ...

"Olympics leave Japan," some ... gathered outside of the Olympic Stadium in Japan. More than 11,000 athletes from 206 nations attended the opening ceremony, which was themed "United by Emotion ...