Month: July 2022

Major international sports events can significantly reduce their carbon footprint if organizers are willing to make some changes, a tourism expert says. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks closed fractionally higher Friday after early gains made on eased concerns over the U.S. Federal Reserve's aggressive rate hikes were largely erased by the news of the gun attack on ... ( read original story ...)

An expert panel estimated on July 7 that the number of new daily coronavirus infections in the Japanese capital could reach some 15,534 in th ... ( read original story ...)

Gov't spokesperson says Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Cabinet ministers are returning to Tokyo after Abe was shot. He was one of the nation's most revered gay cops. His arrest changed everything. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo metropolitan government on Friday reported 8,529 new coronavirus cases, up 248 from Thursday and up 5,231 from last Friday. The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks closed higher Friday with investors shifting their focus to the United States' monetary policy, but gains narrowed after the shooting ... ( read original story ...)

The shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shocked Japan, a country with one of the world's lowest rates of gun crime due to its strict laws on gun ownership. ( read original story ...)

Hospital and emergency response officials said Abe was initially conscious and responsive but then lost vital signs and entered a state of "cardiopulmonary arrest," which, The Washington Post reports, ... ( read original story ...)

For all the speculation of quick military action by China to achieve its foreign policy goals, Beijing's track record has been more akin to peeling an onion, slowly and deliberately pulling back ... ( read original story ...)

The former Japanese prime minister appears to have been shot twice while giving a campaign speech in the city of Nara. ( read original story ...)

Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was in grave condition on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man with what ... ( read original story ...)

Fumio Kishida decries ‘heinous act’ after predecessor is shot while on campaign trail for Sunday’s upper house election ... ( read original story ...)

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an arch-conservative and one of the country's most divisive figures, was shot and critically wounded during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan. He was ... ( read original story ...)

ONE STILL FROM THE SCENE IN THE EDIT SHOWS BLOOD.This was the scene after Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday (July 8) while delivering a speech in the city of Nara.That's ... ( read original story ...)