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Insider launched its first Asia bureau one year ago. Here are 16 of the most popular stories from our team over the last year. ( read original story ...)

U.S. prosecutors have charged a man with supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes at the Tokyo Olympics, a first under a federal law allowing criminal charges against doping conspirators at ... ( read original story ...)

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Eric Lira obtained misbranded versions of prescription drugs used to boost production of red blood cells from Central and South America and distributed them to two athletes, prosecutors said ... ( read original story ...)

Eric Lira faces two criminal counts for international sports doping and for a conspiracy to misbrand drugs, according to a criminal complaint. ( read original story ...)

A vast majority of Japanese firms want fiscal support to keep flowing at least through this year, a Reuters poll showed, while two-thirds want help to ease the pain from rising commodity prices and a ... ( read original story ...)

The newly established SEGA studio, based in the city of Sapporo, will be taking care of developing new titles for SEGA and debugging existing games. ( read original story ...)

Jeff Barna, president of CEO of Yokohama Tire, answers 5 questions about where the tire maker has been, where it is today, and what it expects from the year ahead. 2. The pandemic caused a variety of ... ( read original story ...)

In response to a surge in COVID cases worldwide, the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, limited their panda cubs' public debut to a select group of animal fans that won a lottery to meet the twins ... ( read original story ...)

A Texas therapist allegedly distributed performance-enhancing drugs to two United States athletes ahead of their participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games held last summer in China, according to ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo zoo has shown off its new panda bear cubs. Coronavirus restrictions meant that only a lucky few who had participated in a lottery draw could enter for a few minutes to see the pair. (Jan. 12) ... ( read original story ...)

The reverberations from Hideki Matsuyama’s rise to international golfing star can already be felt in two of the Japan’s most promising talents. ( read original story ...)

THE Nagoya 2026 programme of the national rugby sevens team has become another casualty of the government's funding cuts. Under the Nagoya project, 20 men and eight women's players, the majority of ... ( read original story ...)

Finnair is cutting its February 2022 flying programme in response to increased sick leave among its employees and those of its partners, with the launch of services to Dallas and the return of Nagoya ... ( read original story ...)

Prosecutors in Osaka, Japan, are considering charging a trans woman for using the women's restroom while not having female identity documents. ( read original story ...)

U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Texas therapist with distributing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes participating in the Olympic Games held in Tokyo last summer. ( read original story ...)