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Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Friday that Japan will give 1 million additional doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine each to Taiwan and Vietnam. He added that arrangements were ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's factory output likely fell in May while retail sales rose for a third straight month, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, highlighting the uneven recovery in the world's third largest economy ... ( read original story ...)

The head of the British Olympic Association (BOA) says some members of Team GB refuse to have the Covid-19 vaccine ... ( read original story ...)

To keep enough probiotics alive in products, sellers and consumers must meet the storage conditions, especially storage temperature. Since most live probiotics can only survive in a low-temperature ... ( read original story ...)

Only Durant, Kevin Love and Draymond Green have previous Olympic experience but they are joined by some of the NBA's top players. ( read original story ...)

As the world tries to price the cost of climate change, Japan's second largest non-life insurer MS&AD (8725.T) foresees the potential rise in claim payments in 2050 to be anywhere between 5% to 50% ... ( read original story ...)

Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka hopes to inspire younger generations and make her home country proud by winning an Olympic gold medal. Going for gold: The 23-year-old athlete, who will represent Japan ... ( read original story ...)

When NBCUniversal airs the Tokyo Olympics next month, expect coverage from a new type of “venue” far from the action at the pool or court. It could be a living room, a bar, or Main Street back home. ( read original story ...)

Home of J1 League club Yokohama F. Marinos, the International Stadium Yokohama has a long history of hosting football matches. Most notably, the 70,000-plus capacity stadium hosted the 2002 FIFA World ... ( read original story ...)

The games will bring thousands of foreign athletes, officials, sponsors and journalists to Japan during a pandemic. ( read original story ...)

The grand steward of the Imperial Household Agency, Yasuhiko Nishimura, shared the emperor's concerns at a news conference. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Emperor Naruhito is "extremely worried" that the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics could accelerate the spread of the coronavirus, the head of the Imperial Palace said Thursday with the games ... ( read original story ...)

Andy Murray will bid for a third consecutive Olympic gold medal after being included in Britain’s six-strong tennis team for the Tokyo Games — but his brother Jamie has surprisingly missed out on ... ( read original story ...)

Kazuma Ieiri was bullied at school, too poor to go to university, and spent years in his bedroom as a recluse. More than 20 years later, he’s aiming to take his startup public at a valuation of more ... ( read original story ...)

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan has had a system in which moderate cases of infection are treated in a hotel rather than hospital or at home. This is a way of killing two birds by ... ( read original story ...)

Emperor Naruhito appears worried the Tokyo Olympics will spread Covid-19, a senior aide said, a rare expression of opinion about current events by the imperial court. ( read original story ...)