Millions of people in Japan will not receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine as planned due to a shortage of specialist syringes – an oversight that could frustrate the country’s inoculation programme. ( read original story ...)
A look at what quarantine is like in Olympic-host Japan
What’s it like traveling to Japan, six months ahead of the Olympics? Almost impossible, unless you’re a Japanese national or a foreigner with resident status. A state ... ( read original story ...)
Virus Threatens ‘Game Over’ For Japan’s Arcades
Bright, noisy arcades are still a neighbourhood fixture in Japan, but they have been disappearing as business is hit by virus-curtailed opening hours. "This is when the place usually starts to fill up ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Suga Says Coronavirus Vaccinations to Begin Middle of Next Week
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga addresses a news conference on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan February 2, 2021. David ... ( read original story ...)
Secretive dealmaker lands US$14 bil hit with Kuaishou IPO
Combine search: "high speed rail" @author "Bhattacharjee" @category "From the Edge" Searching either words : 1MDB MAS Searching all words : “Genting Berhad” Searching Chinese phrase : “马电讯” HONG ... ( read original story ...)
BPCL, Air India stake sale by September this year, LIC IPO after October
The initial public offering (IPO) of India's largest insurance company LIC is likely after October this year, a top official said on Tuesday laying out the government's divestment calendar that ... ( read original story ...)
OLYMPICS/ IOC says Tokyo 2020 chief Mori comments ‘absolutely inappropriate’
The Tokyo Games organizing committee (TOCOG ... Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of the influential business lobby Keidanren, initially refrained from commenting but later said: "I feel that that's what ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 leader won’t step down after ‘absolutely inappropriate’ comments
The IOC called comments by Tokyo 2020 leader Yoshiro Mori 'completely inappropriate,' but he seems determined to stay on the job. ( read original story ...)
Japan Jewellery Market Latest Trends, Demand and Huge Business Opportunities 2021 to 2024
Japan Jewellery Market Size Status and Forecast 2021 2024 The Jewellery market report is the most important research for who looks for complete information on the Jewellery market The report covers ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka’s Japan in the new manga!
Unrivaled: Naomi Tenkaichi is a shojo manga created by the tandem of twin authors Futago Kamikita, known for having drawn the Pretty Cure manga, a story set in space and which follows the adventures o ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympic committee to meet over Mori comments as volunteers withdraw
Yoshiro Mori has come under fire for saying last week that meetings with female participants take a long time, adding that they ‘get competitive’ with each other. ( read original story ...)
SRS Real Estate Partners Arranges $9M Sale of Multi-Tenant Retail Center in Palmdale, California
SRS Real Estate Partners’ Investment Properties Group West has brokered the sale of a 56,309-square-foot portion of Towne Square West, a retail property located at 2220 E. Palmdale Blvd. in Palmdale. ( read original story ...)
Wall Street Stays on Crypto Sidelines as Tesla Boosts Bitcoin
Tesla Inc.’s $1.5 billion Bitcoin purchase this week sent the cryptocurrency soaring to a record, with many of its most vocal adherents feeling validated in their “to the moon” predictions. For the ... ( read original story ...)
Who Owns The Stock Exchanges?
More recently, exchanges have bought out their members and offered shares to the public instead via IPO. Today ... By contrast, the smaller Osaka Stock Exchange is publicly-traded, which perhaps ... ( read original story ...)
Two earthquakes hit nation’s east coast yesterday
Two earthquakes of stronger than magnitude 5 struck off the east coast early yesterday, the Central Weather Bureau said, adding that they were aftershocks from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck ... ( read original story ...)
Oregon-Washington earthquake: Homes shake as 4.0 quake hits US mainland
AN EARTHQUAKE rocked northwest USA which was felt all across the region and left a city shaking, according to initial reports which have revealed a 4.0 magnitude tremor. ( read original story ...)