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Tokyo organizers want to somehow simplify next year's postponed Olympics to keep costs down. Estimates in Japan say the delay alone could cost ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto added that the Olympics will "not be done with grand splendour". Organisers said that they are working on more than 200 ideas to simplify and reduce costs for ... ( read original story ...)

From quiet stories of domestic life to accounts of horrific crime, these books introduce the reader to a vast, almost unknowable city ... ( read original story ...)

According to the Olympic Charter 'no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.' ... ( read original story ...)

The local government of this northern Japan city announced on June 9 that 27, or about 14%, of 193 people who had tested positive for the n ... ( read original story ...)

Mizuho Financial Group Inc has seen coronavirus-related loan requests reach 17 trillion yen ($155 billion) since the outbreak, and is bracing for further demand from companies battling to ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing dismissed as “ridiculous” a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the new coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August, and ... ( read original story ...)

TUV Rheinland Japan Ltd. announced that on May 29, 2020 TUV Rheinland LGA Products GmbH issued TUV Rheinland's first MDR certificates under EU Medical Device Regulation 2017/745, for medical devices ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka, the world's highest paid sportswoman, says the voices of prominent athletes can be more influential than those of politicians and is determined that hers will be heard on the subject of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's powerful lower house of parliament approved an emergency budget worth nearly $300 billion Wednesday, doubling the scale of measures to pep up the world's third-biggest economy after the ... ( read original story ...)

"Obviously, we acknowledge the G7 has a mission to lead the global public opinion and Japan wants to take a lead in issuing a statement based on 'one nation, two systems' in Hong Kong," Abe told ... ( read original story ...)

But unless the U.S. Navy could instantly resurrect the sunken battleships at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines were doomed. Backed by heavy air support, the Japanese eventually broke through the lines of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's machinery orders slumped in April at their quickest pace in nearly two years, as a drop in demand and company profits caused by the coronavirus pandemic paralysed businesses spending. Separate ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Grampus forward Mu Kanazaki has tested positive for. Japan’s Kyodo news agency first reported the findings and cited Japan’s soccer J-League. The J-League announced last week that the season ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's April inflation-adjusted real wages fell at their fastest pace since December, government data showed on Tuesday, fanning fears about the outlook for consumer sentiment after the economy took ... ( read original story ...)

U.K. hopes to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Japan is the third largest investor in the U.K. The U.K. and Japan, two of the largest economies in the ... ( read original story ...)