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United Airlines is relaunching the Nagoya-Guam and Fukuoka-Guam nonstop services in August.  This follows other announcements expanding the airline’s non- stop service and capacity between Japan and ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 originally projected to cost US$7.3bn at the time Organisers say Games’ final outlay was US$213m less than December 2021 prediction The organising committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in 2021 after being postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, cost 1.42 trillion yen (£8.5bn), nearly double the figure quoted in the city’s bid for the Games ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 2,329 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital on Wednesday. The figure is up 314 from a week ago, for a fifth straight day of week-on-week increase. The ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The Japanese capital registered 2,329 coronavirus infections on June 22 after marking 1,963 cases the previous day, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced. One COVID-19 death was ... ( read original story ...)

The final price tag for last year's Tokyo Olympics was more than double the city's original 2013 estimate after a one-year coronavirus postponement added to the already hefty bill. ( read original story ...)

At least eight Russian and Chinese warships have been spotted in the seas near Japan this week, another sign of the apparent pressure the two partners have been putting on Tokyo as relations ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's highest court on 17 June dismissed claims that the government should pay damages in cases involving some 3,700 people seriously affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the ... ( read original story ...)

Sri Lanka will call China, India and Japan to a donor conference to drum up more foreign assistance to find a way out of its worsening economic crisis, the prime minister said on Wednesday, amid ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka is launching a new media company in partnership with four-times NBA champion LeBron James ... ( read original story ...)

The event was hit hard by the pandemic. It was delayed by a year and also had no ticketed spectators.  Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

IMAGE: Neeraj Chopra celebrates with gold medal after winning the Javelin Throw Final at the Tokyo Olympics. Photograph: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in 2021 after being ... ( read original story ...)

Japan continues to be on high alert after spotting an increased activity by Chinese and Russian warships near its coast. A day after 16 Russian naval vessels sailed around Japanes ... ( read original story ...)

Tomohiko Taniguchi of Keio University, former special advisor to the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, says Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's administration seems "rather hesitant" to face up ... ( read original story ...)

Calbee, Japan's answer to Frito-Lay with an enormous product line-up ranging from pizza-flavored potato chips to low-carb granola, is raising prices again as companies struggle to absorb costs that ... ( read original story ...)

"I'm incredibly proud to be building a business that is a true reflection of me," the tennis champion said of her new media company, Hana Kuma ... ( read original story ...)