Japan's largest investment bank Nomura has banned all its employees in Japan from taking smoking breaks during working hours ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Day 11 Preview: Para athletics takes centre stage
Saturday is the penultimate day of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, and Canada is readying to compete in four sports: Para athletics, Para canoe, sitting volleyball, and Shooting Para sport. Below is ... ( read original story ...)
Worldwide Olympic Partners Helping to Make Tokyo 2020 Most Innovative Olympic Games Ever
The Olympic Games have always been a catalyst and showcase for innovation, and when Tokyo last hosted the event, in 1964, it saw satellites used to relay live pictures to a global audience for the ... ( read original story ...)
SBI cracks Tokyo’s stone-faced regulators to launch Japan’s first crypto fund
SBI Group have revealed the launch of the first Japanese crypto fund - which will provide access to Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and others. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympians welcomed home to Ystrad Mynach and Blackwood
Two Olympic medallists have been welcomed by hundreds as they rode through their hometowns of Ystrad Mynach and Blackwood. Lauren Price won gold in boxing, while Lauren Williams took silver in ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Paralympics: Best of September 3
Japan's Chihiro Kitada of Japan falls during their women's wheelchair basketball match against Canada. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Paralympics briefing: GB reach 100 medals and Cole bows out
Many more medals for ParalympicsGB, Dutch wheelchair tennis dominance and more ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Leader Will Step Down, Damaged By Criticism Of His COVID Response
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's exit raises the specter of a return to a "revolving door" succession of Japanese leaders. ( read original story ...)
Natalia Partyka exacts revenge to leave Tokyo 2020 with gold
Nobody beats Poland’s Natalia Partyka twice in a row in table tennis at the Paralympic Games. Six days after a devastating defeat to Australia’s Qian Yang in the women’s class 10 singles semi-finals, ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Osaka, men’s contenders on US Open schedule
Naomi Osaka is expected to be back on the court for the first time since the first night of the U.S. Open when ... ( read original story ...)
Visually Impaired Runner Surprised With Proposal at Tokyo Paralympics
Paralympic sprinter Keula Nidreia Pereira Semedo of Cape Verde got engaged to her guide Manuel Antonio Vaz da Vega after her qualifying heat at the Tokyo Paralympics ... ( read original story ...)
WorldView: Japan’s prime minister to step down; 6 stabbed in New Zealand terrorist attack
Japan's Prime Minster Yoshihide Suga to step down later this month. In New Zealand, six people were stabbed in a supermarket attack. Dozens of students have been abducted in Nigeria. And North Korean ... ( read original story ...)
Solana hits all time-high, Ether rises above $4,000 on path back to record for the crypto
The price rallies of ether and solan were partly driven by the explosive growth of decentralized finance protocols and nonfungible tokens. ( read original story ...)
Crypto VC Firm Targeting $75m For Second Early-Stage Fund
Crypto venture capital firm New Form Capital is raising its second VC fund, targeting a $75 million raise for a strategy that invests in early stage blockchain companies via a Wall Street lens. ( read original story ...)
Snapdeal explores IPO, in talks with bankers
The online retailer has held talks with three investment banking firms, including JM Financial, to gauge market interest for the IPO, the sources said, adding that the talks were still at an early ... ( read original story ...)
Misjudgment of Economy-Covid Balance Sees Japan’s Suga Exit
Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast.Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s decision to step down as leader largely reflects his failure to ... ( read original story ...)