A former executive of the Tokyo organising committee for the last Olympics has pleaded not guilty to taking bribes totalling about Y=198 million (EUR1.28 million). His trial began last week.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was grilled by lawmakers on Monday on alleged gifts given to International Olympic Committee (IOC).

An executive at publisher Kadokawa - which printed the Tokyo 2020 programme - has been handed a suspended prison sentence for his role in the corruption scandal embroiling the Games.

World Health Organization (WHO) director general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus has been awarded with an Olympic Order after being credited for playing an "essential" role in ensuring the safety of the delayed Olympics in Tokyo.

Courts in Tokyo have handed down suspended sentences to two executives of a company which manufactured and sold mascots for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games after they were found guilty of offering bribes to a member of the Organising Committee.

Two Japanese businessmen have been given suspended prison sentences, in the latest convictions as part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics bribery scandal.

Hironori Aoki, the former chairman of clothing provider Aoki Holdings, has received a suspended prison sentence for bribing Tokyo 2020 Executive Board member Haruyuki Takahashi.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has officially re-opened the Tokyo Aquatic Centre used for the re-arranged 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Japanese capital before before competition opened in the Japan Swim meeting.

Dentsu is paying the price for its alleged involvement in bid rigging for contracts linked to test events prior to the re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.

Japanese marketing agency Dentsu Group and former Tokyo 2020 operations executive Yasuo Mori are among several companies and officials that have been officially charged over alleged bid rigging for contracts linked to test events prior to the re-arranged Olympic Games.

Dentsu Group President and chief executive Hiroshi Igarashi has admitted that the advertising agency was involved in rigging bids to plan pre-Games test events and operate competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

The former President of a Japanese advertising agency has admitted in court that he bribed Tokyo 2020 Executive Board member Haruyuki Takahashi.

Japanese prosecutors have made four further arrests in connection with allegations of bid rigging for contracts related to test events in Tokyo before the Olympics.

Former chairman of Aoki Holdings, Hironori Aoki, faces a 30-month sentence after being charged with two others for giving Y=28 million (PS175,000/$215,000/EUR198,000) in bribes to a former Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Organising Committee member to land a sponsorship deal.

Approximately JPY40 billion (PS249 million/$307 million/EUR283 million) worth of contracts were given to firms allegedly involved in bidding corruption for the re-arranged 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games test events and competitions in Tokyo, it has been claimed.