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Google wants you to really be able to see your favorite athletes do cool things. © Provided by Mashable Google rolls out AR versions of Simone Biles, Megan Rapinoe, and Naomi Osa ... ( read original story ...)

Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) has announced its decision to withdraw from Yokohama’s IR operator selection process. In a statement, GEG Vice Chairman Francis Lui said: “We greatly appreciate the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-area hospitals "have their hands full," the Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association says in an open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The group represents some 6,000 primary care doctors. ( read original story ...)

Analysts say a more thorough vaccination effort is the only realistic way economic activity can resume close to normal and growth can recover to pre-pandemic levels. ( read original story ...)

While Macau casino firm Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd will not take part in the Japanese city of Yokohama’s request-for-proposal (RFP) process concerning its search for a commercial partner for a ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Rubber sold its headquarters building in central Tokyo. The company is now preparing to shift its headquarters functions to its Hiratsuka factory, which is located some 40 miles south of ... ( read original story ...)

The 32-year-old tagged Osaka and others who appear in the advert: actor Daniel Dae Kim, Fareed Zakaria and Lisa Ling. He also used the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month hashtag. Lin’s fans were ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese doctors' group has urged the cancellation of the Olympics, even as Games organisers reported a surplus of applications from medics to volunteer at the virus-postponed event. ( read original story ...)

Critics of the country’s immigration system say the death reveals an opaque and capricious bureaucracy with nearly unchecked power over foreigners caught inside it. ( read original story ...)

Japan's economy shrank in the first three months of 2021, as new COVID-19 infections and a slow vaccine rollout hit consumer confidence.Much of Japan is still under a state of emergency and deaths ... ( read original story ...)

An elderly Japanese man has anonymously donated his life's savings -- in cash -- to a city outside of Tokyo, an unexpected financial windfall as the economy reels from the fallout of the coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)

The country has experienced cycles of growth and contraction in domestic consumption as the pandemic has waxed and waned. ( read original story ...)

Japan's economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter as the slow vaccine rollout and a resurgence in Covid-19 infections hit consumption. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government, Tokyo organizing committee and sponsors are on one side with the political power and money behind them defending the event, while the anti-Olympics contingent is on the other ... ( read original story ...)

Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd., which operates casinos in Macau, said Monday that it has dropped a plan to be part of the initiative to set up a casino-featuring integrated resort in the city of ... ( read original story ...)

Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast.Japan’s economy shrank more than expected during the first three months of the year, raising the ... ( read original story ...)