One breathtaking performance just transcended all language barriers at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. When the capital of Japan first hosted the Olympics in 1964 — the first time the Games were ...

Vol. 33/34, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Design, Culture and Urbanity in an Era of Dissonance (2021-2022), pp. 75-81 (7 pages) The Review of Japanese Culture and Society is devoted to the scholarly ...

From pictogram people to a moving rendition of "Imagine," the Tokyo Olympics' opening ceremony balanced fun with the seriousness of the moment. One of the most striking sequences in the Tokyo Olympics ...

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch. Toward the end of Friday’s ceremony to open the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the ...

The Opening Ceremony included many memorable moments -- some somber, others inspiring -- but few were as purely fun as the human pictogram performance. What, do tell, is a "human pictogram performance ...

China’s Consulate General in New York has criticized American network NBC for using “an incomplete map of China” when broadcasting the Chinese delegation’s entry at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony ...

One of the most striking sequences in the Tokyo Olympics' opening ceremony revolved around pictograms. Tokyo organizers have been touting their "kinetic pictograms," which show figures bursting into ...