Indian table tennis player Bhavinaben Patel signed off with a historic silver medal in her maiden Paralymic Games after going down 0-3 to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou ... ( read original story ...)
Center court with Naomi Osaka’s trainer: Strength and modesty in perfect harmony
Yutaka Nakamura, 49, is a personal trainer to 23-year-old tennis star Naomi Osaka. In this edition of his regular series, Nakamura reflects on Osaka h ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota Suspends Use of Self-Driving Vehicles After Collision With Paralympics Athlete in Tokyo
RELATED: The Tokyo Paralympics Are Underway ... in Tokyo to prevent similar incidents "from occurring in the future." A Toyota spokesperson told Business Insider that there is no timetable for ... ( read original story ...)
Increased popularity, rise in marketability, more endorsements: India’s Tokyo Olympians are now celebrities
That increased visibility is very important.” Neerav has been handling the business affairs of the likes of Vijender Singh, Mary Kom and Manika Batra as well as Tokyo medallists Lovlina Borgohain and ... ( read original story ...)
2 People Die in Japan After Moderna Shots From Tainted Batch
Japan's health ministry said Saturday that two people in their ... People cross nearly empty streets in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand, Aug. 27, 2021. At a news briefing, ... ( read original story ...)
Hunter Woodall Is Chasing Paralympic Gold In Tokyo. But Not Before Dropping Out Of College To Found This $15 Million Startup
After Hunter Woodhall was stripped of his collegiate eligibility, the Paralympic track star focused on bringing his clothing startup Giant Hoodies to market. ( read original story ...)
Walk-in vaccination site in Tokyo continues to see surge of people hoping to get shots
Thousands of people swarmed a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site newly set up in central Tokyo for young people on Saturday morning ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota suspends use of its self-driving buses after one accidentally hit a visually-impaired athlete in Tokyo’s Paralympic Games village
See more stories on Insider's business page. Toyota suspended its fleet of battery-electric self-driving buses on Friday after an accident in the Tokyo Paralympic Games village injured an athlete. "We ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s latest ASEAN supply woes: palm oil, chicken and pepper
The price of palm oil -- an ingredient in margarine and many other products -- has spiked in Japan to a high not seen since 1985, up 32% from a year earlier at around 217 yen ($1.97) per kilogram this ... ( read original story ...)
Sumitomo Osaka Cement joins Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Decisions Consortium
Japan: Sumitomo Osaka Cement has joined the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Decisions (TCFD) Consortium. The consortium is committed to facilitating effective and efficient disclosure of ... ( read original story ...)
How the pandemic Olympics affected Japan
The delayed Tokyo Olympics arrived just as Japan faced its biggest surge of covid-19 so far. Priyanka Borpujari asks how the city, and the country, coped and whether worries over the event played out ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to use ¥1.4 trillion in reserve funds for COVID-19 measures
¥841.5 billion will be used for more vaccines, while around ¥235.2 billion was earmarked for coronavirus-related treatments. ( read original story ...)
Japan suspends 1.6 mln doses of Moderna shot after contamination reports
Japan suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, more than a week after the domestic distributor received reports of contaminants in some vials. ( read original story ...)
Software Outsourcing to Japan Market Outlook, Gross Margin Study, And Type Analysis are Explained
United States OR Poland Software Outsourcing to Japan Market According to a new report added by Reports Big Market Report titled Software Outsourcing to Japan Market Global Opportunity Analysis and ... ( read original story ...)
Seafood Legacy Co., Ltd. Announces Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Summit 2021 Registration Opens
The Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Symposium, the predecessor to this year's Tokyo Sustainable Seafood Summit, has been held yearly since 2015 and has grown into one of Asia's largest and leading events in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to use $13 bil. in reserve funds for COVID measures
Japan's Cabinet on Friday decided to use 1.4 trillion yen ($13 billion) in fiscal 2021 reserve funds, mainly for additional purchases ... ( read original story ...)