It took pressure from 239 scientists for the WHO to even admit the new coronavirus may spread via aerosols, but in Japan, they're focusing on solutions. ( read original story ...)
US Forces Japan Bans Display of Confederate Flag
"The Confederate Battle Flag does not represent the values of U.S. Forces assigned to serve in Japan," Air Force Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ), said Monday in ... ( read original story ...)
Chance of big San Andreas earthquake increased by Ridgecrest temblors, study suggests
earthquakes, whose epicenters were about 125 miles northeast ... Stein’s coauthor on the study is Shinji Toda, of Tohoku University in Japan. If the Garlock fault did rupture close to the San Andreas ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Virus Numbers Fuel Concern of Spread Beyond Nightclubs
Tokyo reported 119 coronavirus cases Monday, its first reading below 200 in five days, which may ease concerns that the virus is spreading beyond nightclubs and known hotspot areas. ( read original story ...)
Blackpink Ties Their Own Record For Highest-Charting Song By A Korean Girl Group In Canadian History
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN - MARCH 31: Rose, Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo of girl group BLACKPINK perform on the ... [+] stage during the 26th Tokyo Girls Collection at Yokohama Arena on March 31, 2018 in Yokohama, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s MUFG to expand lending business in Thailand with Grab’s big data
TOKYO: Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc will start lending ... who took his post in April. "I believe finance and other businesses will be fused in the future ... I will use Grab's data to ... ( read original story ...)
Virus releases Tokyo commuters’ silent scream
They look, in other words, like pretty much every Tokyo rush-hour commuter. The rollercoaster’s carriages may be smaller and its tracks steeper. But every working day pre-Covid-19, around 8m people ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. bases in Japan locked down as coronavirus outbreak blamed on July 4th parties
Tokyo — Officials in Okinawa on Monday said at least 94 U.S. service members at bases on the Japanese island have tested positive for the new coronavirus, raising long-standing tension between the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan accepted COVID’s airborne spread months ago, and is fighting it
To many researchers in Japan, the admission felt anti-climactic. This densely populated country has operated for months on the assumption that tiny, "aerosolized" particles in crowded settings are ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to utilise over $3.7 billion to support rain-hit Kyushu: PM Abe
Japan will utilise more than 400 billion yen ($3.7 billion) to support the rain-hit Kyushu region where dozens have been killed, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters on Monday. ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered is ‘quite bullish’ on the Japanese yen
Divya Devesh of Standard Chartered Bank explains why the firm is "quite positive" on the Japanese yen in both the short as well as medium-term. Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Cases Spread; H.K. May Tighten Curbs Again: Virus Update
U.S. virus cases rose to 3.27 million with almost 56,000 new infections, less than the one-week average daily increase. Even so, Florida broke the daily record for all U.S. states with more than ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s pioneer of big data predicts change in BOJ’s approach on prices
The coronavirus pandemic will force the Bank of Japan to embrace big data as its conventional consumer price index fails to offer an accurate, real-time picture on inflation, said Tsutomu Watanabe, a ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese biotech firm Immunotech deploys IPO cash to bet on next technology to fight liver cancer
Immunotech Biopharm expects to collect results from its clinical trials on liver-cancer patients next year and aims to win marketing approval for its technology in 2022, CEO Wang Yu says. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Nikkei closes up more than 2.2 percent
Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index jumped more than 2.2 percent on Monday following rallies in the US and Asia on fresh hopes for coronavirus treatments. The Nikkei 225 index was up 2.22 percent, or ... ( read original story ...)
McKay Brothers launches Illinois-Busan and Tokyo-Busan bandwidth at lowest known latency
GENEVA and TOKYO, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- McKay Brothers International (MBI) announced expansion of its lowest known latency private bandwidth services to Busan. The company launched hybrid ... ( read original story ...)