A Ugandan weightlifter has left his Olympic training camp in Japan to look for work after writing a note to say that life was too hard in his home country.Julius Ssekitoleko, 20, was booked to fly ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020: 8 members in isolation after contact with Covid positive case
Eight members of the Great Britain's Olympic team have entered isolation after coming into contact with a Covid-19 case on their flight to the Tokyo Games ... ( read original story ...)
World Covid dispatch: Two athletes test positive in Tokyo Olympic village
Two foreign athletes tested positive for Covid-19 at the Tokyo Olympic Village, the first cases reported among competitors at the village, according to a document ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 lights the way towards carbon-free future
Tokyo 2020 will be the very first time in Olympic history that the Olympic cauldron will be powered with hydrogen, marking the Olympic Movements commitment to a more sustainable world ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-Related Problems Mount as Athletes and Officials Arrive for Tokyo Olympics
The challenge of staging the world’s biggest sporting event during a pandemic is becoming clear as a stream of athletes and others test positive for the virus after entering Japan. ( read original story ...)
Analysis: ‘Shuttle Diplomacy Gone Bad’: How Japan’s investing star became embroiled in Toshiba board dispute
Hiromichi Mizuno's connections, spanning from the Japanese government to Harvard University, made him a guiding voice among climate-focused investors worldwide. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Traders Loved Big Leveraged Bets Until Inexplicable Crash
On the day of one of the cryptocurrency market’s worst routs, Alex Holland woke up to a wave of messages from friends and family. They knew he had made a big wager recently that prices would fall. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Experts in Demand as Countries Launch Digital Currencies
For cryptocurrency enthusiasts who typically rebel against traditional approaches to finance, the digital trend presents an opportunity to create virtual money for a whole nation. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics: South Korea Removes Controversial Flags After Japanese Protests
South Korea’s Olympic committee said it has removed flags at its Olympic village in Tokyo after they raised bad memories about a past military conflict between Japan and Korea. The South Korean ... ( read original story ...)
Russia at Tokyo Olympics with new name, more doping disputes
Russia is competing under another new name at the Tokyo Olympics, the latest fallout from the Games’ longest-running doping saga. You won't see the Russian flag above any podiums but the national ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020: Hydrogen shows promises of a carbon-free future
With hydrogen's growing momentum in politics and business, Japan is showing the way forward to a hydrogen-based society. One of the first countries to adopt a national hydrogen strategy in 2017, it is ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Athletes Have Covid; Johnson’s Swift Reverse: Virus Update
Two athletes tested positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo’s Olympic Village, less than a week before the opening ceremony of the games. Southeast Asia continues to reel from a wave of infections, with ... ( read original story ...)
Sound Museum Vision and Contact Release Collaboration Items with Tokyo Creatives
Renowned Tokyo nightclubs Sound Museum Vision and Contact have been able to resume business after crowdfunding last summer, but due to repeated emergency declarations in the city, operations have been ... ( read original story ...)
Refugee team gets green light for Tokyo Games after positive case
The Olympic refugee team will start arriving in Tokyo later on Sunday, the International Olympic Committee said, ending speculation about their participation after one team official had tested ... ( read original story ...)
‘Shuttle Diplomacy Gone Bad’: How Japan’s investing star became embroiled in Toshiba board dispute
Hiromichi Mizuno’s connections, spanning from the Japanese government to Harvard University, made him a guiding voice among climate-focused investors worldwide. Now those ties have placed his own ... ( read original story ...)
More than half of experts in a recent crypto survey said bitcoin will replace fiat currency by 2050
So-called hyperbitcoinization could take place as early as 2035, according to Finder.com, which surveyed a panel of crypto experts. ( read original story ...)