Tropical Storm Nepartak, with gusts up to 90 kilometres (56 miles) per hour, was still about 1,800 kilometres south of Tokyo on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Games’ ‘unusual form’ offers chance for hard look at Olympics, Japan
The Japan National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the heart of Tokyo, was supposed to be filled with smiling faces and cheeri ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics: PM Modi, Prez Kovind hail Mirabai Chanu for bagging silver
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur congratulated India's ace weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu after she opened India's medals tally at Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
3PL Market in Japan in Air Freight & Logistics Industry|Discover Company Insights in Technavio
Technavio has been monitoring the 3PL market in Japan and it is poised to grow by USD 9.17 billion during 2021-2025, progressing at a CAGR of 3.73% during the forecast period. The report offers an up- ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics highlight what the Pacific Northwest shares with the communities of Japan
In Oregon and SW Washington there are over 27 sister-city relationships with Japan that are not just cultural, but important for business as well. ( read original story ...)
Earthquakes, typhoons … and now we have to worry about heat domes?
High temperatures in Japan have reached more than 41 degrees Celsius in the past, but a heat dome in Canada has the media speculating on whether higher temperatures are ahead. ( read original story ...)
Journey to Japan: An exclusive look at a country pulling off the Olympics during pandemic
Imagine the pressure on Japan, a country charged with pulling off the Olympics during a pandemic. We got exclusive look at what they are dealing with. ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Philippines, no tsunami threat
The country's seismological agency said it did not expect damage. There was no tsunami warning or threat either, according to the US Tsunami Warning System. ( read original story ...)
Superstar Naomi Osaka lights flame as Japan’s COVID-hit Games open
Japan's global superstar Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, ... ( read original story ...)
Hundreds gather for Third Japan-Africa Business Forum, prelude to TICAD 8
Around 1,600 people from all over Africa and Japan gathered over six days to explore closer business ties at the Third Japan-Africa Business Forum, which this year attracted the highest number of ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s 2020 Games squaring up to be Olympic-sized economic flop for Japan
The costs have only gotten higher for Japan as it settles in for a spectator-free Olympics like none other in the event’s history. ( read original story ...)
Toyota Pulls Olympic Ads From Japan
With few fans in the stands, the 2020 Olympics opening ceremony officially kicked off this morning. But the long-awaited games did not come without some complications-- several big business leaders in ... ( read original story ...)
As a Japanese citizen and a consultant, I know why the Tokyo Olympics has become such a disaster
My 12-year-old daughter’s public school in Tokyo had planned to see the Paralympians compete in person. But since organizers announced just days ago that the events would have no audience due to the ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics-Superstar Osaka lights flame as Japan’s COVID-hit Games open
and children from parts of Japan hit badly by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. It was finally handed to Osaka, the 23-year-old four-time tennis grand slam champion whose background as the ... ( read original story ...)
Watch Japanese Breakfast Cover Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again”
Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner, fresh off of her great new album Jubilee, has been working on a cover of Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again.” In her wellness diary in Vanity Fair from April, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Osaka returns to Games’ spotlight on Sunday
Japan's Naomi Osaka will return to the spotlight on Sunday, kicking off her Olympic campaign as a home crowd favourite after taking a mental health break two months ago. ( read original story ...)