calling for state compensation in return for closing its business. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Friday it will expand the scope of existing financial support measures for smaller ... ( read original story ...)
Children of Nurses in Japan Are Excluded From Day Care on Virus Fears
The children of Japanese medical professionals are being shut out from day-care centers, or being asked for proof they aren’t infected with the coronavirus, adding to the burdens of an already ... ( read original story ...)
Making the most of two business schools
Nanyang Double MBA Program is fully harnessing the knowledge he acquired from the course in his professional life. ( read original story ...)
Mikro Entertainment Launches Dance Content Marketplace to Help Dancers Benefit From Third-Party Usage
Mikro Entertainment Inc., a company that has received national media coverage, today announces the launch of the first-ever dance content marketplace, named "GESREC." It ... ( read original story ...)
Cleaning a floating petri dish: How is a cruise ship sanitized after a coronavirus outbreak?
It took nearly all of March to disinfect the Diamond Princess cruise ship that was the source of more than 700 coronavirus cases. ( read original story ...)
Is canned beer better than bottled? After 100-plus years, Anchor Steam is available in cans for the first time
Anchor Steam’s canned version is ‘an enjoyable brew that’s mildly hoppy and has a pleasing caramel-like sweetness.’ ... ( read original story ...)
Training instance segmentation neural network with synthetic datasets for seed phenotyping
A team of scientists led by Yosuke Toda, Designated Assistant Professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, and Fumio Okura, Assistant Professor at the ... ( read original story ...)
Cycling: Tokyo delay means end of line for New Zealander Dawkins
For most athletes a 12-month delay for the Tokyo Olympics was frustrating but for Eddie Dawkins, New Zealand's most successful track cyclist, it convinced him to call time on his career. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Sakurajima Volcano Erupts, Spewing Lava Bombs and Sending Ash 11,000 Feet into the Air
One of Japan's most active volcanoes has erupted, flinging lava bombs into the atmosphere and sending ash 11,000 feet into the air, Volcano Discovery reports. According to recent u, Sakurajima has ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan to Debate Unlimited Bond Buys, Nikkei Reports
The Bank of Japan will discuss abandoning its annual 80 trillion yen ($742 billion) annual purchase target for Japanese government bonds at its monetary policy meeting Monday and replacing it with the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Insurers Go Big on Credit Abroad as Fed Revives Market
Buying corporate bonds overseas is emerging as the top strategy for Japan’s life insurers, as they look to beef-up returns in a world of depressed sovereign yields and mounting stock losses.Four of ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Paralympics: Will Bayley feels ‘guilty’ over Games delay
Paralympic table tennis champion Will Bayley says he feels "guilty" because the delay of a year to the Tokyo Games helps his sporting ambitions. Britain's Bayley seriously injured his knee in October ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus Costa Atlantica: Japan investigates outbreak on docked liner
Japan is investigating a virus outbreak among the crew of a cruise ship which docked in Nagasaki in January with no reported cases until a spike this week. The Costa Atlantica now has 91 crew out of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors predicts losses over pandemic
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. says it expects to move into the red during the current fiscal year as sales plunge because of the coronavirus pandemic ... ( read original story ...)
Japan shames ‘pachinko’ gambling parlors that refuse to shutdown
Mai Nishiyama, Arata Yamamoto and Reuters As stores have closed across Japan during a state of emergency, gambling halls known as pachinko parlors remain open, causing concern that they could ... ( read original story ...)
40 prefectures in Japan to request business closures to fight pandemic
Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture were the first to issue the requests ... so we would like to use money to improve the prefecture’s medical care system to protect the lives of residents.” The prefectural ... ( read original story ...)