Tag: Nagoya

Japan announced fresh stimulus plans worth nearly $300 billion on Wednesday to pep up the economy after the coronavirus pandemic tipped the country into recession. Consumer spending has slowed to a ... ( read original story ...)

With fans barred from stadiums due to coronavirus restrictions, sporting bodies around the world are grappling with how to create atmosphere at matches -- and the makers of a new app think they have ... ( read original story ...)

The Australian Olympic medical officer floats the idea of athletes rotating through the Tokyo Games, rather than appearing as one big team. ( read original story ...)

Fans will be able to cheer — or boo — from the comfort of their couches while their reactions will be broadcast inside stadiums. ( read original story ...)

Japan will compile a fresh stimulus package worth $1.1 trillion that will include a sizable amount of direct spending to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic, a draft of the budget ... ( read original story ...)

In a story May 23, 2020, about Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's radio show, The Associated Press erroneously spelled book titles ... ( read original story ...)

The online photos of its new interior look altogether more garish than the restaurant I remember. Since I am travelling in my mind I will go to the old, higgledy-piggledy premises down a nondescript ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama's tires segment reported business profit loss of $4.6 million on 12.7 percent lower sales of $802.7 million. YRC said the drop in business profit reflected a decline in unit sales volume, an ... ( read original story ...)

The mystery of Japan’s response to the coronavirus pandemic can be boiled down to a simple question: how could it possibly have gone this well? From the beginning, the government of Shinzo Abe has ... ( read original story ...)

Having taken on the No. 2 job for prosecutors, Hayashi is expected to later succeed the current prosecutor-general. ( read original story ...)

Two locations — the stores in Fukuoka and Nagoya Sakae — will reopen on May 27, according to the company’s retail website. Reopening dates for the country’s eight other Apple stores have not yet been ... ( read original story ...)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is cutting hundreds of jobs in Washington state and shuttering its U.S. operations for the troubled SpaceJet project, the company said Friday. “Due to the budget directives ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka has had more success than most of us could dream of—and now the 22-year-old tennis superstar can add another title to her resumé: the highest-paid female athlete in history. According to ... ( read original story ...)

People returned to city streets in Tokyo and the three neighboring prefectures of Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama, as well as in Hokkaido, on Tuesday, the day after a state of emergency due to the new ... ( read original story ...)

People wearing face masks visit the Chinatown area in Yokohama on Tuesday. Japan lifted a nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus on Monday. Photo: AFP. Europeans flock ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government's decision on May 25 to lift a state of emergency on Tokyo was welcomed by travelers at one of the city's busiest rail stations. ( read original story ...)