Japanese Para-long jumper Sayaka Murakami believes the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics represent a "window of opportunity" to create a positive legacy for disabled people in Japan.

Sport resuming across the world has provided encouragement to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) that the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games can go ahead next year, according to the IPC's chief marketing and communications officer Craig Spence.

The French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF) has selected 15 athletes for its team in its latest announcement for Tokyo 2020.

Ignatius Vambe, Zimbabwe's Chef de Mission for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, has stated the nation needs to step up its preparations for the event with qualifiers on the horizon.

The Austrian Paralympic Committee (ÖPC) have stored uniforms for next year's Games in Tokyo with the armed forces.

Paralympic sprinting champion Deja Young revealed she gained "comfort" from the postponement of Tokyo 2020 after she fell ill with COVID-19.

Paralympics Australia has named the first 10 members of its team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, with the headline name Rio 2016 long jump champion and former German national Vanessa Low.

The chief executives of two National Paralympic Committees in Oceania are to discuss their preparations for the postponed Tokyo 2020 during a webinar.

A member of staff at the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has tested positive for coronavirus, representing the organisation's fourth recorded case so far.

Paralympics Ireland are filling the void from the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympics by hosting a two-week awareness campaign with its high performance athletes.

Gursharan Singh, the secretary general of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), has stated that he feels that the nation will have its best Paralympic Games to date in Tokyo in 2021.

Paralympics Australia has digitally revealed its uniforms for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Nearly 60 per cent of Japanese Para-athletes feel positively about the postponement of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, according to a survey from new agency Kyodo, but the majority also have concerns over returning to action. 

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike promised a Paralympic Games "brimming with hope" as the countdown for the event reached the one-year-to-go mark.