Japanese residents braced for impact on Saturday as the powerful Super Typhoon Haishen barreled through unusually warm waters towards the Okinawa islands. ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka Wears Mask with Ahmaud Arbery’s Name and Wins Third Round at U.S. Open
Naomi Osaka continues to draw attention to police brutality and racism — and continues to win — at this year’s U.S. Open. On Friday, the 22-year-old tennis star wore a face mask with Ahmaud Arbery's ... ( read original story ...)
Schools in Japan are back in session amid coronavirus pandemic
Tokyo – While COVID-19 has sowed uncertainty and chaos in American education and left many kids to learn remotely, Japanese schools are back in session, thanks to a much lower rate of community spread ... ( read original story ...)
Torrential rainfall and fierce winds forecast as Typhoon Haishen nears Japan
Pouring rain, high tides and winds will hit before the typhoon on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. ( read original story ...)
Japan Coast Guard suspends search for crew of missing cargo ship with 43 sailors and 5,800 cows
The search for the crew of a cargo ship that went missing during Typhoon Maysak was suspended Saturday due to bad weather, according to Japan's Coast Guard. ( read original story ...)
Students in Japan return to in-person, but socially distanced classes
While the coronavirus pandemic is keeping many American students at home, children in Japan are back in the classroom. Schools there have been able to reopen because Japan, with about one-third of the ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful Typhoon Haishen closing in on Japan, South Korea
Typhoon Haishen is strengthening and, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, has become the first super typhoon of the season in the western Pacific Ocean. ( read original story ...)
Soccer: Sanfrecce defeat Consadole 2-0 to end winless streak
Sanfrecce Hiroshima put on a counterattacking clinic against Consadole Sapporo in the J-League first division on Saturday, claiming ... ( read original story ...)
Japan coastguard suspends search for crew from capsized cattle ship due to bad weather
Japan's coastguard on Saturday suspended its search for crew missing from a cattle ship in the East China Sea due to bad weather from a typhoon, a coastguard said. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Suga says would like to see continuation of easing policies: Nikkei
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday that he highly approves of Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and that he would like to see a continuation of easing policies, ... ( read original story ...)
US Open 2020: Naomi Osaka through, Evans and Norrie beaten and more – as it happened
Cameron Norrie was defeated in four sets by Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and he was joined shortly after by Dan Evans, who fell in four to Corentin Moutet. Naomi Osaka overcame 18 year-old Marta ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. Open tennis: Novak Djokovic, Naomi Osaka reach fourth round
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic remained perfect this year and advanced to the fourth round of the U.S. Open with a straight-sets win over Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff. ( read original story ...)
U.S. Open: Naomi Osaka finishes strong to avoid third-round upset
Two-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka ran into some trouble against teenager Marta Kostyuk before winning handily in the final set. ( read original story ...)
Making a slow getaway: Japan’s anti-yakuza laws result in cohort of ageing gangsters
More than half of yakuza are now over 50 - and 10% are over 70 - as a result of an ageing population and police crackdowns ... ( read original story ...)
Search for crew of sunken cargo ship suspended as second typhoon nears Japan
Forty crew members are still missing but rescue efforts are being hampered by approach of Typhoon Haishen ... ( read original story ...)
Soccer: Virus sparks change in J-League sponsors’ marketing strategies
With the number of spectators at stadiums capped in keeping with government guidelines to prevent the spread of the novel coronaviru ... ( read original story ...)