Japan is scrapping controversial plans for an expensive new centerpiece stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday. Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid’s ...

Japan's summer Olympics are still five years away, but there is major controversy over the centerpiece of the games. The design for the new Tokyo stadium is expected to be finalized next week and ...

TOKYO (AP) Japan's government has approved a plan to reduce the seating and slash the construction cost of the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after public opposition to the initial design.

TOKYO (AP) Japanese political leaders said Thursday the new main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is too costly and called for cost-cutting efforts to reduce the burden on taxpayers.

The parents of a worker on Japan's Olympic stadium who committed suicide have petitioned the government to recognise it as "death by overwork", an official said on Thursday, with media saying he ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday called for a complete review of plans for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic stadium amid growing public anger over its eye-watering US$2 billion price tag.

The Japanese government said it would scuttle plans to build an 80,000 showcase stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics after the price tag had nearly doubled to a stunning $2 billion. At one point ...

Japan is scrapping controversial plans for an expensive new centerpiece stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday. Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid’s ...

Citing costs that have ballooned to $2 billion, nearly twice the original estimate, the Japanese government on Friday announced that it’s scrapping plans for the proposed Olympic stadium and ...