Month: June 2021

A consortium led by casino operator Genting Singapore has submitted its proposal to build a gambling resort in Yokohama, the Japanese port city announced Friday. The Genting consortium is expected to ... ( read original story ...)

Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, a women’s mental health psychiatrist, shares what we can learn from the tennis star’s French Open decision. ( read original story ...)

Historically, the bad girls are punished. The rule-breakers have to be bound, put in the stocks, carted off to the asylum, silenced. The world has not been able to deal with the non-meek, the un-quiet ... ( read original story ...)

With the Tokyo Olympics a little over a month away, its host city is still under a state of emergency. Japan is looking to ramp up its COVID-19 vaccination effort ahead of the upcoming Summer Games. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Yokohama city concluded on Friday its request-for-proposal (RFP) submission period regarding commercial partners for its tilt at getting a casino complex or integrated resort (IR), as they are ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government is considering easing the COVID-19 restrictions in Tokyo and Osaka from June 21, a government official said Friday. Tokyo and Osaka are likely to be kept under a quasi-state of ... ( read original story ...)

The Nagoya Municipal Board of Education on June 10 decided to temporarily halt schoolchildren's tablet use and notified each school of the d ... ( read original story ...)

Last Monday, the coldest tennis player in the game, Naomi Osaka, withdrew from the French Open. Yes, you heard it right — the French Open. But, citing concerns of her own mental health, Osaka later ... ( read original story ...)

Just days after Ms. Osaka left the French Open for mental health reasons, with an ensuing flurry of media coverage, speculation and commentary, the No. 1 seed Ashleigh Barty withdrew due to a hip ... ( read original story ...)

The question of allowing any fans at all into Tokyo Olympic venues is still being debated with a decision unlikely to be announced before the end of the month ... ( read original story ...)

Around 18,000 Tokyo Olympics workers including referees and volunteers will be vaccinated from next week, organisers said Friday, as they try to build confidence that the Games will be safe. ( read original story ...)