Steven Seagal Net Worth: Steven Seagal is an American martial ... In 1974, he met Miyako Fujitani, the daughter of an Osaka aikido master that was teaching aikido in Los Angeles. ( read original story ...)
Sapporo to remain as Olympic venue for marathons, race walks
Kit McConnell, the International Olympic Committee's sports director, said Thursday he anticipates the marathon and race walking events will remain in Sapporo next year for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, ... ( read original story ...)
Bankers Keep Vision Fund Going With Rubber Bands
Specifically, at the $100 billion Vision Fund. Most venture capitalists operate by taking in money from limited partners and throwing it at speculative investments, and then distributing the results ... ( read original story ...)
Olympic road events still set for Sapporo
IOC confirms competition schedule remains in place for the delayed Games, including holding the marathons and race walks outside of Tokyo Next year’s Olympic marathon and race walk events are still ... ( read original story ...)
Toshiba should sell stake in ex-chip unit at IPO, says HK activist fund in letter
A Hong Kong-based activist investor in Toshiba Corp has asked the Japanese conglomerate to sell its entire stake in Kioxia Holdings when the ... ( read original story ...)
Sapporo to Close Schools Again in Coronavirus Fight
Sapporo, April 12 (Jiji Press)--Hokkaido and its capital, Sapporo, issued a joint emergency declaration on Sunday calling for school closures and people's restraint on going outside to prevent the ... ( read original story ...)
Adam Neumann and Benchmark sold more than $670m in WeWork stock before its botched IPO
Adam Neumann, who was ousted as WeWork’s chief executive last year, sold $361m in shares in 2017 when SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate, first invested in the company, The Telegraph understands. ( read original story ...)
Olympic road events will still take place in Sapporo instead of Tokyo at postponed Games
All Olympic road events including race walks and marathons at next year's re-arranged Games will still be held in Sapporo and not Tokyo. The decision to move them because of the heat in Tokyo had ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore stops Zoom for online education as hackers strike
Singapore has suspended the use of Zoom for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students. In what is known as “Zoombombing,” two hackers ... ( read original story ...)
Woman arrested for leaving fetus in suitcase in Nagoya
A 20-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of abandoning a fetus in a travel bag in front of a nightclub in Nagoya, police said. Haruka Kaneko told the police she had become pregnant ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank warns of huge losses as Vision Fund value collapses
The Japanese company said it expected an operating loss of 1.35 ... Uber was pummeled by investors after going public and continues to trade well below its IPO price. WeWork tried and failed to pull ... ( read original story ...)
Discovery of a drug to rescue winter depression-like behavior
A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, has used a chemical genomics approach to explore the underlying mechanism of ... ( read original story ...)
EQS-News: CN Logistics International Holdings: CN Logistics Submitted its Hong Kong Main Board IPO Application
The application material shows that Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. (through its holding company "TOLL"), together with Mr. Lau Shek Yau John and his daughter (Ms. Lau Ying Cynthia) (through CS ... ( read original story ...)
Woman arrested over abandonment of fetus in Nagoya
A 20-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of abandoning a fetus in a travel bag in front of a nightclub in Nagoya in c ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank’s Vision Fund Not Feeling So Good, Will Take Nearly $17 Billion Hit Amid Pandemic
Japanese investment titan SoftBank disclosed on Monday that it expects to take up ... which has left it unable to pay rent at some locations. Uber’s IPO last year went badly, with the company ... ( read original story ...)
Woman suspected of abandoning fetus near Nagoya nightclub
NAGOYA – A 20-year-old woman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of abandoning a fetus in a suitcase in front of a nightclub in Nagoya, police said. Haruka Kaneko told the police she got pregnant with a ... ( read original story ...)