Follow horse racing with Alex Hammond on Sky Sports - get live racing results, racecards, news, videos, photos, stats (horses & jockeys), plus daily tips. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Cement invests Rs. 2.5 bn in Colombo Port Terminal capacity expansion
Tokyo Cement Group recently commissioned operations of the newly expanded capacity at the Tokyo Cement Colombo Port Terminal in a soft opening ceremony. The event is the culmination of a 2.5 billion ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks open slightly higher on Wall St. rise, weaker yen
Tokyo stocks were slightly higher in early trading Wednesday, supported by gains on Wall Street overnight and a weakening yen against the U.S. dollar. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue ... ( read original story ...)
Japan executed 3 death row inmates for the first time since 2019
"Today's abhorrent resumption of executions is a damning indictment of this government's lack of respect for the right to life," said an Amnesty International official. ( read original story ...)
Japan hangs three death row prisoners in first executions since 2019
Japan hanged three death row prisoners, carrying out its first executions since December 2019 and the first under the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. ( read original story ...)
Japan stocks set for positive start as sentiment lifts following omicron variant fears
Major averages on Wall Street saw big rebounds overnight on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumping more than 500 points. ( read original story ...)
Woman attacks 2 passengers with blunt instrument on train in Yokohama
A woman attacked two passengers with a blunt instrument on a subway train in Yokohama near Tokyo on Tuesday, causing slight head injuries to the female victims, police said. The perpetrator fled ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Anna From Frozen Dead At 35 After Hotel Fall
Japanese actress and singer Sayaka Kanda has died at the age of 35 after falling from a high-rise hotel in northern Japan. As reported by Kyodo News, per Kanda's office, Kanda -- who voiced the ... ( read original story ...)
Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer, dies at 35
Sayaka Kanda, the actress and singer who notably voiced Anna in the Japanese-dubbed version of Disney's Frozen, died after an apparent fall at a hotel in Japan on Saturday. She was 35. Local news ... ( read original story ...)
7-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel inks deal with athletic training company following record-breaking Tokyo Games
Caeleb Dressel signed a deal with GMX7 as an official ambassador. GMX7 plans to promote the X1-PRO which Dressel has trained on. ( read original story ...)
Japan hangs 3 inmates in first executions since 2019
Japan carried out its first set of executions under Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Tuesday as three death row prisoners were executed, CNN reported. The execution was the first in Japan since ... ( read original story ...)
Three death row inmates hanged in Japan in first executions since 2019
Three death row inmates were executed by hanging Tuesday in Japan, marking the first executions since 2019 and the first under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The inmates executed were Yasutaka ... ( read original story ...)
U.S., Japan Reach Deal on Payments for Hosting American Troops
The U.S. and Japan reached an agreement on costs Tokyo will bear to continue hosting tens of thousands of American troops, a bulwark against China and a key part of the Pentagon’s Indo-Pacific ... ( read original story ...)
City council in Tokyo votes on proposal to give foreign residents partial voting rights
Even still, the members of the city council of Musashino City, a section of Tokyo west of the downtown area, found time to come together and vote on, well, voting. Though the proposal didn’t go so far ... ( read original story ...)
GhostWire: Tokyo – Everything We Know
The city--by far the most populous in the world--has seen its citizens vanish. Naturally, it's up to you to figure out what's going on, and we've rounded up everything we know about GhostWire: Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Tokyo offers new deals via newly launched mobile app
Tokyo Tokyo, the country's leading Japanese restaurant chain, has launched its own mobile app to give customers a more convenient access to its products and exclusive ... ( read original story ...)