For most athletes a 12-month delay for the Tokyo Olympics was frustrating but for Eddie Dawkins, New Zealand's most successful track cyclist, it convinced him to call time on his career. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Sakurajima Volcano Erupts, Spewing Lava Bombs and Sending Ash 11,000 Feet into the Air
One of Japan's most active volcanoes has erupted, flinging lava bombs into the atmosphere and sending ash 11,000 feet into the air, Volcano Discovery reports. According to recent u, Sakurajima has ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan to Debate Unlimited Bond Buys, Nikkei Reports
The Bank of Japan will discuss abandoning its annual 80 trillion yen ($742 billion) annual purchase target for Japanese government bonds at its monetary policy meeting Monday and replacing it with the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Insurers Go Big on Credit Abroad as Fed Revives Market
Buying corporate bonds overseas is emerging as the top strategy for Japan’s life insurers, as they look to beef-up returns in a world of depressed sovereign yields and mounting stock losses.Four of ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Paralympics: Will Bayley feels ‘guilty’ over Games delay
Paralympic table tennis champion Will Bayley says he feels "guilty" because the delay of a year to the Tokyo Games helps his sporting ambitions. Britain's Bayley seriously injured his knee in October ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus Costa Atlantica: Japan investigates outbreak on docked liner
Japan is investigating a virus outbreak among the crew of a cruise ship which docked in Nagasaki in January with no reported cases until a spike this week. The Costa Atlantica now has 91 crew out of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors predicts losses over pandemic
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. says it expects to move into the red during the current fiscal year as sales plunge because of the coronavirus pandemic ... ( read original story ...)
Japan shames ‘pachinko’ gambling parlors that refuse to shutdown
Mai Nishiyama, Arata Yamamoto and Reuters As stores have closed across Japan during a state of emergency, gambling halls known as pachinko parlors remain open, causing concern that they could ... ( read original story ...)
40 prefectures in Japan to request business closures to fight pandemic
Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture were the first to issue the requests ... so we would like to use money to improve the prefecture’s medical care system to protect the lives of residents.” The prefectural ... ( read original story ...)
Japan March factory output, retail sales seen falling at sharper rate as virus hits: Reuters poll
Both Japan's factory output and retail sales likely fell at a sharper pace in March as the coronavirus pandemic weighed more heavily across the broader economy, a Reuters poll showed. A marked slowdow ... ( read original story ...)
Japan finmin says not in talks with BOJ over bond buying cap
The Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance are not discussing now whether to ditch the central bank's cap on its annual bond purchases in a bid to avert the coronavirus economic downturn, Finance ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka Mayor Draws Criticism After Saying Women Are Slow Shoppers
The mayor of the western Japanese city Osaka came under fire on social media on Friday after saying women take longer than men shopping for groceries as he tried to promote social distancing to curb ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka names and shames six pachinko parlors staying open in epidemic
Osaka – The Osaka Prefectural Government on Friday revealed the names of six pachinko parlors that have not followed its request to shut down in the fight against the novel coronavirus. It is the ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka mayor sets Twitter abuzz with claim that women dawdle at shops
The mayor of Osaka has come under fire for suggesting men should be the ones doing the grocery shopping during the pandemic because women are indecisive and “take a long time.” Under the national ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka mayor under fire for saying women dawdle at shops
The mayor of Osaka has come under fire for suggesting men should do grocery shopping during the coronavirus outbreak because women are indecisive and "take a long time." Japan is under a state of ... ( read original story ...)
10% of Osaka’s coronavirus cases are medical professionals
Medical professionals account for about 10 percent of all novel coronavirus cases in Osaka Prefecture, with in-hospital infections suspected at four institutions. A total of 1,380 cases, the second ... ( read original story ...)