Tag: Nagoya

SAPPORO--A district court has rejected a married couple’s compensation claim that argued the wife was forcibly sterilized and coerced into an abortion because of her intellectual disability under the ... ( read original story ...)

A scaled back Sapporo Snow Festival opened online Thursday, revealing the four ice statutes featured in this year's coronavirus pan ... ( read original story ...)

Gippsland Trophy 2nd seed Naomi Osaka had to dig deep against Katie Boulter in the third round. The Japanese lost the opening set and had to battle hard from the second to break the rival's resistance ... ( read original story ...)

The president of the Tokyo Olympics has refused to resign after igniting a storm of criticism by saying that women do not belong on committees because they talk too much. Yoshiro Mori, the 83-year-old ... ( read original story ...)

A group of anti-China activists campaigning for human rights in Tibet and support for ethnic Uighurs called on Thursday for a boycott of the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing, saying the Games would ... ( read original story ...)

Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, apologized Thursday after comments he made suggesting women talk too much during meetings were leaked to the Japanese media. ( read original story ...)

Yoshiro Mori said he has not considered stepping down, despite outrage over his remarks denigrating women for talking too much at meetings. ( read original story ...)

Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, said on Thursday he would not resign despite pressure on him to do so after making derogatory comments earlier in the week about ... ( read original story ...)

Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, has conceded he may have to resign after making sexist remarks about “talkative” female sports administrators. Mori, a former ... ( read original story ...)

Japan persistently trails its peers on promoting gender equality, ranking 121 out of 153 nations surveyed in the 2020 global gender gap report of the World Economic Forum. ( read original story ...)

The head of the Tokyo Olympics has caused outrage in Japan after saying that women should be limited in the time they are allowed to speak in meetings because they are too long-winded.Yoshiro Mori, 83 ... ( read original story ...)

Hospitals across Japan are struggling to cope with the country's worst surge in Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began. The Prime Minister has apologized for the government's insufficient medical ... ( read original story ...)

Casino operator Wynn Resorts Ltd has reiterated it is still interested in pursuing a casino licence in Japan, despite not taking part in Yokohama’s fresh request-for-proposal that was announced ... ( read original story ...)

Getting your groove back after a shortened season is everyone's goal. Naomi Osaka is trying to find her gear one match at a time. ( read original story ...)

The president of the Tokyo Olympic organising committee said he may need to resign over comments he made about women if calls for him to do so strengthen, the Mainichi newspaper quoted him as saying ... ( read original story ...)

Derogatory comments about women made earlier in the week by Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and a former prime minister, could force him to resign. It's one more ... ( read original story ...)