Month: June 2022

OSAKA, Japan >> A nearly 200-foot “Tower Slide” at the Tsutenkaku Tower, which opened during Golden Week in late April, takes visitors from an observation deck on the third floor to the tower’s ... ( read original story ...)

Crude oil futures in Tokyo have risen to their highest level in almost 14 years amid a surge in global benchmark prices. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo confirmed 1,876 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, down by about 460 from a week before and marking the 27th consecutive day of a week-on-week drop. The seven-day average of new infections came ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 1,876 new cases of coronavirus infections in the capital city on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Adding to the burgeoning crop of events in the Asia Pacific region, a new fair is set to launch in Tokyo in July 2023. It is the brainchild of Sandy Angus, Tim Etchells and Magnus Renfrew, whose ... ( read original story ...)

Sprüth Magers to open in New York; Art Basel galleries put spotlight on refugees; Miami museum buys Nam June Paik work ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, June 9 (IANS) Japan's lower house of parliament on Thursday shot down a no-confidence motion put forward by the main opposition party against embattled Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda. The ruling ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA--A sibling of a Sri Lankan woman who died while in detention for overstaying her visa urged immigration authorities to rethink their attitudes about people incarcerated for such relatively ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Gendai will open in 2023, and will feature 80 to 100 mostly international contemporary artists, and target a new generation of collectors, say the fair’s co-founder Magnus Renfrew ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese capital recorded 1,876 more coronavirus cases on June 9 after registering 1,935 cases the day before, the Tokyo Metropolitan Gov ... ( read original story ...)

Companies in Japan will be required to disclose the wage gap between men and women under the "women's version" of the government's Basic Policy for Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform ... ( read original story ...)