Month: January 2022

THE Japanese B.League is almost halfway through its 2021-22 season calendar, which means there is finally enough sample size to use in evaluating the nine Filipinos playing as imports in the 22-team ... ( read original story ...)

Cameron Norrie begins the British challenge on day one of the Australian Open as the first Grand Slam of the year gets under way without Novak Djokovic. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 4,172 new coronavirus cases in the Japanese capital Sunday. The number rose 3.4-fold from a week before. There was no fatal case. In western Japan, Tottori ... ( read original story ...)

The surge of cases in the capital was a 3.4-fold increase from a week before as a number of prefectures nationwide set new single-day records for infections. ( read original story ...)

FC Tokyo scored a second straight win over VC Nagano, 25-22, 25-16, 25-16, even as Marck Espejo sat out on Sunday in the Japan V.League. Espejo was on the bench in street clothes on Sunday after ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's confirmed daily coronavirus cases on Sunday topped 20,000 for the third consecutive day, as the country continues to battle w ... ( read original story ...)

What if the Bank of Japan blinks?’ Until last week, trade in the yen reflected an expectation that while the US Federal Reserve may be forced into further monetary policy tig ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Defense Ministry has said North Korea launched two missiles on Friday, which are believed to be the same type as the ones launched from a train last September. ( read original story ...)

Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan topped US$1.700 billion in 2021, marking a small increase of 0.49 per cent from more than US$1.692 billion a year earlier, according to preliminary ... ( read original story ...)

On Saturday, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted violently, triggering tsunamis to reach Hawaii, Japan, and Tongatapu, Tonga's largest island, flooding the capital. The ... ( read original story ...)

Three people, including two students on their way to take university entrance exams, were stabbed Saturday just outside of a test venue, ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast at midnight on Saturday, urging residents to evacuate from seaside areas, following a massive underwater ... ( read original story ...)

Kenta Izumi, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), met with Junya Ogawa, chair of the party's policy committee in front of bustling Yurakucho Station in central ... ( read original story ...)

A tsunami warning, issued after the eruption of a volcano in the waters of the Pacific island state of Tonga, has been cancelled for all regions of Japan since the threat has passed. According to the ... ( read original story ...)

A massive underwater volcanic eruption near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga triggered surges in sea levels of up to 1.2 meters across a vast stretch of Japan’s Pacific coastline, prompting ... ( read original story ...)