The slick yet serene Aman Tokyo spans the top six floors of a 38-storey skyscraper in the business district Otemachi. The minimal interior taps into Japan’s design heritage with its wood, paper and st... ( read original story ...)
Latest Tokyo attraction: the recycling cocktail bar
The Gomi-Pit (or Waste-Pit) Bar in Musachino in the greater Tokyo area is a temporary cocktail bar set up at one of the city’s municipal waste recycling plants in a bid to boost awareness of environme... ( read original story ...)
Australian Open 2019: Naomi Osaka on run to remember as slam success continues
January 25, 2019 8:55am EST January 25, 2019 8:55am EST Tennis, Preview, WTA, Australian Open, News, Grand Slams, US Open, English, Petra Kvitova, WTA Tour, Features, Naomi Osaka Naomi Osaka has becom... ( read original story ...)
‘Fear’ and ‘favor’ chill newsroom at storied Japanese paper
Prominent Japanese conservatives, meanwhile, applauded the move, calling it a coup for nationalist activists agitating for English-language news outlets to change such descriptions. In an email, Mizun... ( read original story ...)
Foreign workers in Japan double in 5 years, hitting record
Japan's serious labor shortage has left the ... charge of work that they were not authorized to do under the program. Nikkei staff writer Jada Nagumo contributed to this report. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020: Japan Olympic kit to feature recycled clothes
Japanese athletes competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will wear an official kit made in part from recycled clothes collected from across the country, sports firm Asics said on Friday. The project was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan court upholds sterilization to register gender change
TOKYO - Japan's Supreme Court has upheld a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents. The court said the law is ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo apartment rents continue to rise in Q4, says Savills
Co-living is on the rise among younger property seekers, although “interest may be held back” as a result of Tokyo’s "vast existing stock of compact living spaces and its reliable, well-connected publ... ( read original story ...)
Kvitova-Osaka: Australian final from different perspectives
What she is focused on now is winning her first Grand Slam title since Wimbledon in 2014. To get there, she'll have to beat 21-year-old Naomi Osaka, the U.S. Open champion who is on a 13-match winning ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to resume commercial whaling one day after leaving the IWC
Kyodo news agency said, quoting association sources. The decision to openly hunt whales for profit comes weeks after Japan announced its withdrawal from the IWC following years of friction between Tok... ( read original story ...)
Fuller, Smith & Turner to Sell Beer Business to Japan’s Asahi
(Reuters) - British pub operator and brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner said it had agreed to sell its beer business to a European unit of Tokyo-based Asahi for an enterprise value of 250 million pounds on ... ( read original story ...)
Australian Open: Hottest property in women’s tennis Naomi Osaka keeps her cool for final
Naomi Osaka will be taking nothing for granted as she prepares to face Petra Kvitova in the Australian Open Final on Saturday morning but she can be sure of one thing. Given what happened in her first ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Nishinoomote in Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan on Friday. Id of earthquake: us2000j8n6. Event ids that are associated: us2000j8n6. The temblor was ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 206 km ESE of Yamada, Japan
A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 206 km ESE of Yamada, Japan (128 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 144.2518° East, 38.965° North. Exact time and date of ea... ( read original story ...)
Tennis: Osaka says sponsor apologised over controversial commercial
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Japanese noodle company Nissin has apologised to Naomi Osaka after controversially depicting her in a commercial which has since been removed, the 21-year-old said on Thursday. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo inflation picks up but BOJ’s price target remains distant
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo’s core consumer price inflation picked up slightly more than expected in January due to higher energy prices, but Japan’s central bank still has a long way to achieve its elusi... ( read original story ...)