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Tokyo's Metropolitan Government reported at least 2,848 COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, the Japanese city's highest case count since the pandemic began, Reuters writes.The big picture: Rising ... ( read original story ...)

When I heard that there was a state emergency in Tokyo, I knew that there must be very strict rules of people especially been out at night. ( read original story ...)

Japan's capital, Tokyo, reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, days after the Olympics began ... ( read original story ...)

Kris Temple is the English-language announcer at the Tokyo Olympics' marathon and race-walking events, as well as at the Paralympics' athletics. ( read original story ...)

Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has announced the release of significantly updated AIR Earthquake and Typhoon Models for Japan. The past several years has reaffirmed the vulnerability of ... ( read original story ...)

Some Japanese said it broke their hearts to imagine how much Osaka had wanted to win the gold for her country. ( read original story ...)

They travel to the forgotten around the capital’s outlying neighborhoods, taking care of desperate people who can’t find a place in Thailand’s overburdened health care system or who are living in the ... ( read original story ...)

More than three months after winning an election which sparked a constitutional crisis, Samoa’s first female prime minister was finally able to take office on Tuesday Democrats are launching their ... ( read original story ...)

As judoka from around the world compete heatedly in the Tokyo Olympics, a woman from downtown Tokyo is serving as the sole Japanese referee f ... ( read original story ...)

Press Release Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) are pleased to announce the jointly organized "NET ZERO Leaders Summit (Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Many of the channels look at female athletes as ‘female’ or ‘girls’ or ‘wives’ or ‘mothers’ and not really as pure athletes,” Naoko Imoto said. ( read original story ...)

Japan began accepting applications Monday for so-called vaccine passports for people who have been fully inoculated against COVID-19 to travel internationally, as Japanese business lobbies have called ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s recently revised corporate governance code has the potential to accelerate reforms at some of the nation’s top businesses and could lead to an overall increase in the value of Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's top public pension funds — led by the ¥186.2 trillion ($1.7 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund — continued adding private equity, infrastructure and real estate assets to their ... ( read original story ...)

Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today unveiled its new Appian Japan regional office. The office is headed by Shinsaku Hashimoto, a software industry executive with more than 20 years of expertise in business ... ( read original story ...)

As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe. ( read original story ...)