Month: December 2020

When the Tokyo market was focused on a dramatic tussle for the hotel and property group Unizo in mid-2019, Stephen Schwarzman placed calls to some of Japan’s most powerful and well-connected business ... ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga reiterated there was no need for Japan to enter a national state of emergency, even as health groups declared their own state of emergency for the medical system as ... ( read original story ...)

Holding 2020 Olympics next July — as Japan appears determined to do — is crazy. Kudos to Michael Phelps for stating the obvious: “The fact that you’re going to put ten thousand plus athletes, plus all ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. Open singles champion Naomi Osaka acknowledged athlete participation in protesting racism and police brutality in an op-ed that was published in the New York Times on ... ( read original story ...)

When the bodies of a mother and daughter were found in their apartment in Osaka's Minato Ward on Dec. 11, the latter had just 13 yen (about 1･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

The International Olympic Committee won’t require coronavirus vaccines of athletes competing at the Tokyo Games next summer, but the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is working on a plan to ... ( read original story ...)

A rare giant squid measuring 10 feet in length was found washed ashore, largely intact, on the western coast of Japan, according to a local press report. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Finance Ministry approved a budget of $51.5 billion for the Defense Ministry, which is $3.5 billion lower that the Defense Ministry requested in September. ( read original story ...)

A Trump-supporting group in Japan's Osaka help a march campaigning for the re-election of the former president. Participants of the march carried placards showing "stop the steal", "four more years" ... ( read original story ...)