Naomi Osaka has decided to put her mony into a raft of projects that are aimed at boosting sports infrastucture in California ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus live news: Japan detects fast-spreading variant first found in Britain; Portugal deaths at new high
Japan finds Covid variant in three people with no record of travel to UK; Portugal’s daily death toll reaches record high of 167 Yohannes Lowe (now); Caroline Davies and Helen Sullivan (earlier) There ... ( read original story ...)
Japan vows to forge ahead with Tokyo Olympics this summer
Japan has again vowed to forge ahead with Tokyo 2020 this summer, despite rising opposition in the nation as Covid-19 infection rates surge alarmingly. Determined rhetoric from Prime Minister ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus live news: Japan finds Covid variant in 3 people with no record of travel to UK; Germany ‘a long way from where we want to be’
Japan detects fast-spreading variant first found in Britain; German health minister says more needs to be done to bring virus under control; Russia reaches 3,591,066 cases ... ( read original story ...)
Japan finds COVID-19 variant in three people with no record of travel to UK
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese doctors have detected a fast-spreading variant of the new coronavirus first discovered in Britain in three people who had not travelled there, the Health Ministry said on ... ( read original story ...)
The 204th Ordinary Diet session begins in Japan
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga drinks a water during the Lower House's plenary session of the 204th Ordinary Diet session at the National Diet in Tokyo, Japan on Monday, January 18, 2021. Photo ... ( read original story ...)
Japan urges South Korea to drop wartime compensation demands
Japan’s foreign minister is accusing South Korea of worsening already strained ties by making what he called illegal demands for compensation for the sexual abuse of Korean women and use of forced lab ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Kono, administrative reform minister, to handle coordination of coronavirus vaccinations
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he had instructed Taro Kono, administrative reform minister, to also handle coordination of the government's preparations for delivering the ... ( read original story ...)
Woman arrested after not paying taxi fare from Yokohama to Tottori
Police in Tottori City have arrested a woman in her 40s on suspicion of fraud after she took a taxi from Yokohama to Tottori and then could not pay the fare. According to police, the woman, whose name ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka: “We too are victims of racism. I won’t shut up and dribble!”
Shut up and dribble is an incredible article written by Japanese champion Naomi Osaka and published in the Turning Point column, then reposted on the New York Times. An article that focuses on the ... ( read original story ...)
Suicides rise in Japan’s second wave of Covid-19
Japan Japanese mental health has been hit by the second wave of the pandemic, with the country recording steep rises in suicides among women, children and adolescents. The suicide rate rose by 49 per ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM vows to press ahead with Olympics despite virus surge
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed on Monday to forge ahead with preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer, in the face of growing public opposition as Japan battles a surge in coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo To Cut Back On Athletes At Olympics Opening Ceremony
Tokyo Olympics organisers said Monday they will slash the number of athletes at the opening and closing ceremonies of this year's coronavirus-delayed Games, as a report said thousands fewer will ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s PM vows Olympics will be proof of victory over virus
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed Monday to get the pandemic under control and hold the already postponed Olympics this summer with ample coronavirus protection. In ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Suga: Will exhaust all means to protect pandemic-hit medical system
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday his government will take all possible measures to protect the country's medical system, as hospitals creak under the strain of the COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM vows to press ahead with Olympics amid virus surge
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed on Monday to forge ahead with preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer, in the face of growing public opposition as Japan battles a surge in coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)