After a yearlong delay and months of hand-wringing that rippled across a pandemic-inflected world, a Summer Games unlike any other is at hand. It's an Olympics, sure, but also, in a very real way, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan maintains economic assessment in July report
Japan kept the overall assessment of its economy unchanged for a second straight month in July, retaining the view that conditions remain severe due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In a ... ( read original story ...)
Japan court sentences US pair to 20 and 24 months over Ghosn escape
A US special forces veteran and his son have been jailed for helping Nissan’s former chairman to flee criminal charges in Japan by hiding him in a luggage box on a plane that flew out of the country. ( read original story ...)
Japan court sentences American father and son to prison over Carlos Ghosn’s escape
Americans Michael Taylor and Peter Taylor were given prison sentences by a Tokyo court Monday for helping former Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn escape Japan in a box aboard a plane in 2019, per the Wall ... ( read original story ...)
Japan court hands down jail time for US duo over Ghosn escape
A Japan court on Monday sentenced an American father-son duo who helped former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn flee the country to between 20 months and two years in prison. ( read original story ...)
American father, son sent to Japan prison in Ghosn escape
A Tokyo court handed down prison terms for the American father and son accused of helping Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, escape to Lebanon while awaiting trial in Japan. Michael Taylor was ... ( read original story ...)
US father and son jailed in Tokyo for helping Carlos Ghosn flee Japan
US army special forces veteran Michael Taylor was sentenced to two years and his son Peter for one year and eight months ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota Cancels All Tokyo Olympics TV Ads, CEO Won’t Attend Opening Ceremony
Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp., a top corporate sponsor for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has decided to pull all of its Olympics-related TV commercials. Japanese media speculated Monday that the ... ( read original story ...)
Main Korean Olympic delegation heads to Tokyo
The main South Korean delegation to the Tokyo Olympics departed for Japan on Monday, four days ahead of the opening ceremony for the competition ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese supporter of Myanmar orphanage forced to watch turmoil from afar
And thousands of kilometers away in Fukuoka, Takashi Takino, 78, who supports an orphanage and other organizations in Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon, receives a steady stream of messages from ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics hit by rising Covid cases and scandals days before opening
Tokyo’s dreams of a trouble-free run-up to Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony have been shattered by a tally of Covid-19 infections, an alleged rape, a bullying scandal and a vanished weightlifter. ( read original story ...)
Afraid that its athletes may eat contaminated ingredients from Fukushima, South Korea created its own Olympic food program. Japan is not impressed.
South Korea launched its own food program for its athletes and delegates in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, over fears they may be served radioactively contaminated ingredients. ( read original story ...)
Japan, S.Korea leaders summit in limbo amid uproar over sexual innuendo
Plans to hold the first in-person summit between the leaders of Japan and South Korea have hit a snag over a disparaging comment by a Japanese diplomat about the South Korean president, the latest ... ( read original story ...)
The wild celebrities of Japan’s national parks
Discover spherical algae balls, majestic sea eagles, giant salamanders and more in Akan-Mashu National Park and Daisen-Oki. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus latest: Nikkei falls as Tokyo struggles to contain infections
Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Cumulative global cases have reached 190,284,516, according to Johns Hopkins ... ( read original story ...)
Motohiko Saito elected Hyogo governor for first time
Saito, a 43-year-old former head of the finance section of the Osaka prefectural government, was supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai. ( read original story ...)