Olympic organisers meet Saturday for talks expected to bar overseas fans from this summer's pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games, in a bid to reduce virus risks and win over a sceptical public. The move would ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 likely won’t allow foreign Olympic volunteers: Kyodo
Olympic Organising Committee is leaning towards barring foreign volunteers from helping at the delayed Games this summer, amid public concerns over the coronavirus, Kyodo news service reported on ... ( read original story ...)
RCEP trade deal could boost Japan’s GDP by 140 bln USD: gov’t
Provided by Xinhua The free trade deal signed by 15 Asia-Pacific countries last November will see tariffs eliminated on 91 percent of goods with sta ... ( read original story ...)
Enlivex Receives Notice of Allowance for Japanese Patent Application Covering the use of Allocetra in Combination with CAR-T Therapies
Enlivex Therapeutics Ltd. (Nasdaq: ENLV, the “Company”), a clinical-stage macrophage reprogramming immunotherapy company targeting diseased macrophages in patients with sepsis, COVID-19 and solid ... ( read original story ...)
Professional Liability Insurance Market May See Big Move : Zurich, Tokyo Marine, Liberty Mutual
Latest Market intelligence report released by HTF MI with title "Global Professional Liability Insurance Market Research Report with Opportunities and Strategies to Boost Growth- COVID-19 Impact and ... ( read original story ...)
Robinhood Plans To Expand Crypto Operations
The Menlo Park, California-based online brokerage added cryptocurrency trading features to its platform in 2018. ( read original story ...)
Evolution of aseismic slip rate along plate boundary faults before and after megathrust earthquakes
The aseismic slip rate, which increases sharply immediately after a giant earthquake and then rapidly decays, increases again gradually toward the next event, according to observations of earthquakes ... ( read original story ...)
‘I do sport, but it’s not who I am’: Nicola McDermott jumping for gold and God in Tokyo
After each jump during competition, Australian high jumper Nicola McDermott does something unusual. Having returned to her kitbag and retrieved a notepad, McDermott proceeds to rate her performance in ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Investment Bank Seeks to Hire a Dozen for Flurry of Deals
Imperii, an investment bank that focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, is looking to hire at least a dozen people this year to handle a flurry of deal activity that it’s expecting. ( read original story ...)
Climate-Positive Crypto Art: The Next Big Thing Or NFT Overreach?
Beeple, together with digital artists such as Andres Resigner, Refik Anadol, Sara Ludy, and Kyle Gordon, are gearing up for an NFT charity auction. All of the proceeds will go to Open Earth Foundation ... ( read original story ...)
People on the West Coast are largely driving the conversation around crypto art, with Middle America showing the least interest
The states that tweeted the most about the digital assets in the last month include California, Oregon, and Washington. ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan carves out more flexibility for longer inflation fight
A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. The BoJ unveiled a set of carefully crafted policy tweaks aimed at giving itself more flexibility to keep up its long quest to revive ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama revamps consumer, commercial websites
Yokohama Tire Corp. has revamped its websites for consumer and commercial audiences — and — to improve the customer experience and make it easier to find tire information. Among the new features on ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama SUV tyre receives ‘world’s most prestigious design award’
Yokohama’s Geolandar CV G058, a grand touring tyre for crossover SUVs, was among the winners at the recent Chicago Athenaeum 2020 Good Design Awards. The award-winning tyre is part of Yokohama’s ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics Official Resigns After Calling Female Japanese Celebrity ‘Olympig’
Hiroshi Sasaki, the Games' creative director, suggested that Japanese celeb Naomi Watanabe could perform dressed as a pig during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Tokyo Olympics likely to ban fans from abroad
TOKYO — Tokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee are poised to make it official that most fans from abroad will be prohibited from attending the postponed Olympics because of the ... ( read original story ...)