The way money flows among firms can tell us about their economic activities and responses to economic shocks such as the one caused by Covid-19. This column uses data on remittances among in a ... ( read original story ...)
Where to visit 2020 Olympics venues in Japan
Tourists can't attend the Tokyo Olympics, but when it becomes safer to go to Japan's largest city, fans will be able to connect to these legacy holdovers they're seeing on television now. ( read original story ...)
Westpac exits life insurance with $660 million unit sale to Japan’s Dai-ichi
Westpac Banking Corp on Monday became the latest Australian firm to retreat from the life insurance sector, as it agreed to an A$900 million ($660 million) sale of its domestic unit to Japan’s ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Suga’s Support Falls Below 30% for 1st Time – Asahi Newspaper
Support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshide Suga's administration fell below 30% for the first time since he became premier in September, a poll by Asahi newspaper showed on Monday. In the poll ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Suga’s support slides to record low as Olympic Games close – survey
Support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga slid below 30% for the first time since he took office, a survey showed on Monday, a sign the Tokyo Olympic Games failed to boost his ratings amid a ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama FC – Nagoya Grampus
Follow the Meiji Yasuda J1 League live Football match between Yokohama FC and Nagoya Grampus with Eurosport. The match starts at 11:00 on 9 August 2021. Who will come out on top in the battle of the ... ( read original story ...)
A wacky farewell from Japan, and so on to Paris
To enter the National Olympic Stadium, for a resident of Tokyo at least, is like passing into a parallel universe. Ordinary spectators are excluded and, in the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo passes the baton to Paris as strangest ever Olympic Games come to an end
Tokyo handed the Olympic flag over to Paris as organisers breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the strangest Games in living memory. Although not without its problems, most notably the absence of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s ‘hydrogen Olympics’ the latest stumble for hydrogen energy
From the Olympic flame to athletes’ buses, the fuel’s performance fell short of expectations, but the country remains committed to its future ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong property tycoon gives another HK$4 million to tech initiative that designed Olympic cycling medallist’s suit
Sun Hung Kai Properties executive director Adam Kwok Kai-fai ups his donation to sports aerodynamics initiative following Sarah Lee’s win. ( read original story ...)
Japan shares higher at close of trade; Nikkei 225 up 0.33%
Japan equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 rose 0.33%. The ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka Shares Behind-the-Scenes Snaps from Her Time at Tokyo Summer Games: An ‘Olympic Collage’
Naomi Osaka is giving fans an inside look at her time in Tokyo, Japan, for the 2020 Summer Games in what she calls an "olympic collage" ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo says goodbye to the Games with grace and sense of relief
Japan’s Olympics has been troubled but quietly glorious, reminding us the world can be fun ... ( read original story ...)
Japan wanted to showcase innovation. But these Olympics may be remembered for bureaucracy
Olympic visitors will likely remember not technological advances but the reams of paper forms, glitchy apps and rigid bureaucracy of Japan's anti-COVID measures. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo bids adieu to Olympic Games with grand closing ceremony
The Olympic flag was brought down and handed over to administrators from Paris, which will host the next edition of the Games in Paris. ( read original story ...)
Handing Out Awards for the Tokyo Olympics
Now that the Olympics are over, the United States may lay claim to winning the overall count with 113 medals. But SI has its own medals to award, both good and bad, for people, places, great deeds, ... ( read original story ...)