Apart from Japan, only New Zealand (after an overt and brutal lockdown), China, Macau, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, UAE and Qatar. I doubt that any country in Europe or the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Top Court Allows Retrial For ‘Longest’ Death Row Prisoner
Japan's highest court has upheld a ruling granting a retrial to a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, a lawyer for the 84-year-old said on Wednesday. Iwao Hakamada has lived ... ( read original story ...)
White & Case Continues Asia Finance Expansion With Tokyo Partner
White & Case has hired a new partner in Tokyo specializing in debt financing deals. Clara Shirota joins from Clifford Chance where she was a Hong Kong-based consultant advising on leveraged finance ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka firm starts selling ‘fastest accelerating EV in the world’
WAKAYAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A company in western Japan started selling earlier this month what it calls "the fastest accelerating electric vehicle in the world" which takes only 1.69 seconds to ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics name Hiroshi Sasaki director for ceremonies
The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee appointed Hiroshi Sasaki on Wednesday as the head creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and ... ( read original story ...)
Health panel: Tokyo area must do more to stop spread of virus
A health ministry expert panel on Dec. 22 said authorities in the greater Tokyo area must do more to reduce business operating hours and prevent travel to halt the widening spread of novel coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)
Caring for both regular, COVID-19 patients in Japan getting difficult – minister
Offering medical care to both regular patients and COVID-19 patients in Japan are becoming difficult, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Wednesday, as daily infections rose to record highs ... ( read original story ...)
Top Japan law firm to let foreign lawyers become equity partners
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has become the first of Japan’s Big Four law firms to let foreign lawyers become full equity partners, as the quartet fights international rivals for advisory work on ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo announces new creative team in rush to streamline ceremonies
Tokyo Olympics officials on Wednesday announced a new creative team that will be responsible for redesigning the opening and closing ceremonies at next year's Games, which will be pared back due to ... ( read original story ...)
New Director Picked For ‘Restrained’ Tokyo Olympic Ceremonies
Organisers of the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics said Wednesday they have picked a new creative director to redesign "simpler and more restrained" opening and closing ceremonies for next ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s ‘Twitter Killer’ Drops Death Sentence Appeal
A Japanese man dubbed the "Twitter killer" has withdrawn an appeal of his guilty verdict and death sentence over the murder of nine people, a court official said Wednesday. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, ... ( read original story ...)
Marriott International Expands Footprint in Japan in 2020
PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAR) today announced the expansion of its footprint in Japan with the ... ( read original story ...)
WealthNavi gives Tokyo Stock Exchange one of its biggest IPOs of year
Japanese robo-adviser WealthNavi Inc. debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday in one of the biggest initial public offerings on the bourse this year. The wealth management platform jumped about ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei rises as pharma stocks gain on hopes of existing vaccines working on new virus strain
Japan's Nikkei share average edged up on Wednesday, with healthcare leading gains after drugmakers said the existing vaccines were likely to be effective against the new coronavirus variant, while ... ( read original story ...)
Kitchen equipment piles up as pandemic shutters Japan’s restaurants
A truck laden with kitchen sinks, cutlery, pots and pans pulls up to a warehouse in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, and workers begin to unload the goods taken from shuttered restaurants - victims of the ... ( read original story ...)
SEC lawsuit will cripple crypto: Ripple CEO
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse addresses the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit over the XRP cryptocurrency. ( read original story ...)