Construction will be delayed on a fourth Universal theme park in Florida and the opening of a park in Japan will be pushed in the wake of coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
Asia Today: Japan debuts robots at hotels for virus patients
Robot staff debuted at a Tokyo hotel used for mildly sick coronavirus patients under a new plan to free up beds at hospitals overburdened with more severe cases. Pepper, ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Inflation Gains 0.2% On Year In April
Consumer prices in the Tokyo region were up 0.2 percent on year in April, the Ministry of Communications and Internal Affairs said on ... ( read original story ...)
Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka will take part in a livestreamed ‘Mario Tennis’ tournament with a $1 million charity prize
Tennis superstars will be paired with celebrities including Seal and Gigi Hadid. ( read original story ...)
Mysterious mask brokers supply Tokyo businesses amid shortages
Amid face mask shortages in Tokyo sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, mysterious mask-selling middlemen have ensured a steady supply to many Tokyo businesses that don’t even usually sell the product. ( read original story ...)
27 Days in Tokyo Bay: What Happened on the Diamond Princess
The cruise ship captivated the world as it docked in Yokohama, harboring Covid-19—and 3,711 people who became subjects in a life-and-death quarantine experiment. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo barber launches virtual ‘telecut’ service
TOKYO >> The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many services and events to go virtual ... Mr. Brothers admits the telecut initiative is more of a “quick-fix” measure, one unlikely to evolve into a viable ... ( read original story ...)
Murderers on the lam, police abuse-incited riots all part of life for Osaka’s day laborers
The streets of Osaka can be rough. You'd be forgiven for not noticing upon first glance. Japan itself is an incredibly safe nation, especially when compared to the West. The murder rate is about 1/5th ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Econ
Japan has a special need to protect its high-risk aging population. It’s still anyone’s guess what happens next. The global base case is for the worst to be over by July—though the world economy could ... ( read original story ...)
‘Wobble’ may precede some great earthquakes
The land masses of Japan shifted from east to west to east again in the months before the strongest earthquake in the country's recorded history, a 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake that killed more than 15 ... ( read original story ...)
Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes
Fig. 1: Locations of the great earthquakes and of the continuous GNSS stations that capture the preceding transient motions. Fig. 2: Time series before Tohoku-oki and Maule and the effect of noise ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Indian business leaders push to loosen lockdown
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause ... ( read original story ...)
A Japanese company is renting out separate rooms to married couples to help them ‘avoid divorce’
The phrase "corona divorce" has surfaced on social media recently, which influenced the rental company's decision to offer couples separate rooms. ( read original story ...)
Japan to extend state of emergency due to coronavirus: Nikkei
The Japanese government is planning to extend the state of emergency over the new coronavirus pandemic by about one month for the entire country, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)
Global and Japan DSRC Safety Modem Market Recent Study Including Business Growth, Development Factors and Growth Analysis (2020-2026)
The report provides rational insights along with historical and forecast data to aid in better understanding of ... ( read original story ...)
Not all pachinko parlors in Tokyo shut, 600 still investigated
The Tokyo metropolitan government has clarified Gov. Yuriko Koike's statement that all pachinko parlors in Tokyo have complied with r ... ( read original story ...)