Tag: Nagoya

Making its Olympic debut, skateboarding brought joy and expression to the forefront of the Games, showcasing freedom, creativity and individuality. ( read original story ...)

If Suga loses, he would join a long list of short-term premiers. Suga, whose term as ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader ends next month, has seen his support slide from highs of about 70% to below ... ( read original story ...)

Now, a group of scientists led by Prof. Yoshizumi Miyoshi from Nagoya University, Japan, has observed, analyzed, and provided greater insight into this phenomenon. The findings are published in Nature ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA--Osaka city has begun mass inoculations using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to speed up the pace of its rollout amid a shortage of Pfizer doses. ( read original story ...)

Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka geared up for next week's US Open by climbing to second place in the WTA rankings published on Monday, nudging Naomi Osaka ... ( read original story ...)

Two pinged Paralympians have been given permission to train and compete after Great Britain’s closest brush with Covid in Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

India has won 12 medal in total in Paralympics since it first took part in 1972 and if the projected success materialises ... ( read original story ...)

Eleven people affiliated with U.S. Forces Korea tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving on the peninsula between Aug. 3 and Wednesday, according to a recent news release. ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday he regrets the defeat of his close aide Hachiro Okonogi in the previous day's Yokohama mayoral election. Suga backed the former public safety chief, who got ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is sending three military aircraft to Afghanistan to evacuate Japanese citizens and local staff as security deteriorates following the Taliban takeover ... ( read original story ...)

A Russian man has asked Japan for political asylum in Japan after making a treacherous trip in a rubber dinghy in the disputed Kurile Islands. ( read original story ...)

Before the global pandemic, the expectation around the Tokyo Games was huge. Three years ago, I said that it would help the Paralympics take another big step forward with increased media coverage ... ( read original story ...)

The same phenomenon that causes aurorae -- the magical curtains of green light often visible from the polar regions of the Earth -- causes mesospheric ozone lay ... ( read original story ...)

A request-for-proposal (RFP) process regarding commercial partners for Yokohama’s tilt at getting a casino complex will likely “be shelved very soon,” suggests Samuel Yin Shao Yang, an analyst at ... ( read original story ...)

Exit polls pointed to a clear victory for the opposition-backed professor of public health Takeharu Yamanaka, NHK said. ( read original story ...)

Aryna Sabalenka has passed Naomi Osaka for No. 2. Though Osaka did better than Sabalenka in Cincinnati (third round compared to second round), she was defending far more points from reaching the final ... ( read original story ...)