That’s right: the iconic Rubber Duck sculpture is making a return to Osaka for a limited time this summer. The sunny yellow sculpture will be inflated on the Okawa River by Nakanoshima Park for the ... ( read original story ...)
NBC resets focus for Tokyo while also looking to Beijing
When Molly Solomon took over as executive producer and president of NBC's Olympics production unit last November, she expected to be in Tokyo right now with the Games in full swing. But with ... ( read original story ...)
Russian doping: Athletes must be kept out of Tokyo Games, says whistleblower Rodchenkov
Doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov says no Russian athletes should be allowed to participate in next year's Tokyo Games. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo opens empty Games venues up for public use
Tokyo Olympics venues that would have been packed with the world's top athletes and supporters but for the coronavirus pandemic are now being opened up for use by sporting federations and the public. ( read original story ...)
Pandemic hit to Japan’s first-quarter business spending worse than first thought
Japan's companies spent less than initially estimated in the first quarter of the year, revised data showed on Monday, suggesting the coronavirus pandemic's hit to the economy was deeper than first ... ( read original story ...)
China-Backed Crypto Guru Wants to Unify the World’s Blockchains
The blockchain world today is thousands of disparate platforms that can’t talk to each other. So a little-known startup hatched one of the most ambitious plans yet to bridge all the divides -- and ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Long & Short: Where Fintech Ends and Crypto Begins
She asked: “Is crypto fintech?” My instinctive answer was “no!” For me, fintech is technology applied to finance, while cryptocurrency is a technology unto itself. That technology is giving rise to a ... ( read original story ...)
Trading Day: Australian shares turn higher after early dip, amid COVID case concerns
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Monday, July 27. Australian shares turned higher after an early dip, amid rising tensions with China and ongoing concerns over coronavirus case numbers. The nations ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Revises Down First-Quarter Corporate Capex to 0.1% Year-On-Year Increase: MOF
Japan's economy, the world's third-largest ... to the first-quarter GDP figures on Aug. 3 reflecting the revised capital spending data from the finance ministry. (Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Writing ... ( read original story ...)
Japan revises down Q1 corporate capex to 0.1% yr/yr increase – MOF
Japan’s economy, the world’s third-largest ... to the first-quarter GDP figures on Aug. 3 reflecting the revised capital spending data from the finance ministry. (Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Writing ... ( read original story ...)
Pandemic Forces Digital Change on Japan’s Businesses
The coronavirus pandemic may be a drag on economies across the globe, but in Japan it’s bringing long-overdue change in work habits and tools.About 90% of Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co.’s ... ( read original story ...)
RPT-Twenty years on, Japan government’s digital ambitions still stuck in piles of paper
Two decades after Japan rolled out an ambitious plan to go digital, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the government's deeply rooted technological shortcomings as ministries remain stuck in a ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Jan.-March business spending revised down to 0.1% rise
Capital spending by Japanese companies rose 0.1 percent in the January-March quarter from a year earlier, revised downward from an earlier result of 4.3 percent growth, the government said Monday. ( read original story ...)
Pandemic Forces Digital Change on Japan’s Analog Businesses
The coronavirus pandemic may be a drag on economies across the globe, but in Japan it’s bringing long-overdue change in work habits and tools. ( read original story ...)
Aspiring Osaka model finds strength from Paralympics to be open about leg prosthesis
Amane Yano, now 18, hears her number being called, and steps out onto a brightly lit catwalk. In the audience sit many fashion magazine write ... ( read original story ...)
Popular Japanese food truck and SF restaurant will close at end of the month
Izakaya Roku is closing - and they're looking for a new owner to take over their popular bento food truck, JapaCurry. Opened by Jay Hamad as a brick-and-mortar restaurant in 2013 following the success ... ( read original story ...)