Month: June 2021

Home of J1 League club Yokohama F. Marinos, the International Stadium Yokohama has a long history of hosting football matches. Most notably, the 70,000-plus capacity stadium hosted the 2002 FIFA World ... ( read original story ...)

The games will bring thousands of foreign athletes, officials, sponsors and journalists to Japan during a pandemic. ( read original story ...)

The grand steward of the Imperial Household Agency, Yasuhiko Nishimura, shared the emperor's concerns at a news conference. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Emperor Naruhito is "extremely worried" that the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics could accelerate the spread of the coronavirus, the head of the Imperial Palace said Thursday with the games ... ( read original story ...)

Andy Murray will bid for a third consecutive Olympic gold medal after being included in Britain’s six-strong tennis team for the Tokyo Games — but his brother Jamie has surprisingly missed out on ... ( read original story ...)

Kazuma Ieiri was bullied at school, too poor to go to university, and spent years in his bedroom as a recluse. More than 20 years later, he’s aiming to take his startup public at a valuation of more ... ( read original story ...)

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan has had a system in which moderate cases of infection are treated in a hotel rather than hospital or at home. This is a way of killing two birds by ... ( read original story ...)

Emperor Naruhito appears worried the Tokyo Olympics will spread Covid-19, a senior aide said, a rare expression of opinion about current events by the imperial court. ( read original story ...)