TOKYO -- U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's focus on international cooperation and alliances appears to have struck a chord with the Japanese public, a Nikkei/TV Tokyo poll finds, as more respondents ... ( read original story ...)
Karolina Pliskova Appoints Ex-Naomi Osaka Coach Sascha Bajin Ahead of 2021 Season
Former world number one Karolina Pliskova has appointed Naomi Osaka’s former coach Sascha Bajin as her new coach for the 2021 season. Pliskova split with coach Daniel Vallverdu earlier this month ... ( read original story ...)
Peach Aviation enters pleasure flight business
Faced with a slump in travel demand stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, the airline hopes to improve its earnings through the new business. ( read original story ...)
Step into my office (if you can)! Tokyo hotel creates double-decker desk pods in bid to lure WFH workers
The Anshin Oyado hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, has renovated an entire floor in its hotel to allow guests to work from the confines of its building amid the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Reports: Cost of Tokyo Olympic delay put at about $2 billion
TOKYO (AP) — The cost of the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics is estimated to be just under $2 billion, or about 200 billion yen. Japan’s Kyodo news agency and the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s lesson on ageing gracefully
In the three decades since Japan’s real estate bubble burst in the early 1990s there has been little overall economic growth or inflation. The easiest monetary policy in the world — interest rates ... ( read original story ...)
Japan and South Korea see surge of suicides among young women, raising new questions about pandemic stress
There are no comprehensive studies of suicide rates and lockdowns, but the data from East Asia has added to the debate. ( read original story ...)