Asian Games: Japan hosts for 1st time in 32 yrs, aims for record golds

TOKYO - Welcoming the Asian Games in summer for the first time in 32 years next month, Japan is aiming to eclipse its record tally of 78 gold medals by sending its biggest-ever delegation of around 930 athletes.

Some 15,000 athletes and officials from 45 countries and regions will compete in 43 sports at the Sept. 19-Oct. 4 games mostly in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, with the country hosting for the third time after Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994.