Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of the Kudo-kai Yakuza syndicate in the Fukuoka prefecture of Japan, was handed the death penalty on Wednesday for ordering four civilian attacks, including one ... ( read original story ...)
Paddler Bhavinaben Patel wins historic silver at Tokyo Paralympics
Indian table tennis player Bhavinaben Patel signed off with a historic silver medal in her maiden Paralymic Games after going down 0-3 to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou ... ( read original story ...)
Center court with Naomi Osaka’s trainer: Strength and modesty in perfect harmony
Yutaka Nakamura, 49, is a personal trainer to 23-year-old tennis star Naomi Osaka. In this edition of his regular series, Nakamura reflects on Osaka h ... ( read original story ...)
UN urges Japan to investigate damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors for clean-up
A team of United Nations experts is urging Japan to investigate Fukushima’s nuclear reactors that were damaged a decade ago by a massive earthquake and tsunami. ( read original story ...)
Toyota Suspends Use of Self-Driving Vehicles After Collision With Paralympics Athlete in Tokyo
RELATED: The Tokyo Paralympics Are Underway ... in Tokyo to prevent similar incidents "from occurring in the future." A Toyota spokesperson told Business Insider that there is no timetable for ... ( read original story ...)
Increased popularity, rise in marketability, more endorsements: India’s Tokyo Olympians are now celebrities
That increased visibility is very important.” Neerav has been handling the business affairs of the likes of Vijender Singh, Mary Kom and Manika Batra as well as Tokyo medallists Lovlina Borgohain and ... ( read original story ...)
2 People Die in Japan After Moderna Shots From Tainted Batch
Japan's health ministry said Saturday that two people in their ... People cross nearly empty streets in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand, Aug. 27, 2021. At a news briefing, ... ( read original story ...)
Light magnitude 4.2 earthquake at 56 km depth
Detailed earthquake information - overview map, magnitude, time, depth, source, shake map, list of reports. File an "I felt it" report if you felt the quake! Features interactive map, read user ... ( read original story ...)
Hunter Woodall Is Chasing Paralympic Gold In Tokyo. But Not Before Dropping Out Of College To Found This $15 Million Startup
After Hunter Woodhall was stripped of his collegiate eligibility, the Paralympic track star focused on bringing his clothing startup Giant Hoodies to market. ( read original story ...)
Light magnitude 4.2 earthquake at 303 km depth
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Makubetsu, Wakkanai Shi, Hokkaido, Japan, was reported only 13 minutes ago by Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), ... ( read original story ...)
Walk-in vaccination site in Tokyo continues to see surge of people hoping to get shots
Thousands of people swarmed a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site newly set up in central Tokyo for young people on Saturday morning ... ( read original story ...)
Moderate tremor of magnitude 4.2 just reported 59 km southwest of Obihiro, Japan
Support us - Help us upgrade our services! We truly love working to bring you the latest volcano and earthquake data from around the world. Maintaining our website and our free apps does require, ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota suspends use of its self-driving buses after one accidentally hit a visually-impaired athlete in Tokyo’s Paralympic Games village
See more stories on Insider's business page. Toyota suspended its fleet of battery-electric self-driving buses on Friday after an accident in the Tokyo Paralympic Games village injured an athlete. "We ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s latest ASEAN supply woes: palm oil, chicken and pepper
The price of palm oil -- an ingredient in margarine and many other products -- has spiked in Japan to a high not seen since 1985, up 32% from a year earlier at around 217 yen ($1.97) per kilogram this ... ( read original story ...)
Sumitomo Osaka Cement joins Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Decisions Consortium
Japan: Sumitomo Osaka Cement has joined the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Decisions (TCFD) Consortium. The consortium is committed to facilitating effective and efficient disclosure of ... ( read original story ...)
How the pandemic Olympics affected Japan
The delayed Tokyo Olympics arrived just as Japan faced its biggest surge of covid-19 so far. Priyanka Borpujari asks how the city, and the country, coped and whether worries over the event played out ... ( read original story ...)