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Reigning men's champion France's Vincent Luis will be the man to beat when the 2021 World Triathlon Championship Series opens in Yokohama tomorrow. ( read original story ...)

Despite a fourth wave of coronavirus infections taking over and a low vaccine rate, Japan's government says it will hold the 2021 Summer Olympics no matter what. Japan extended its third official ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan is further expanding a coronavirus state of emergency to three additional areas ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. The state of emergency is currently in Tokyo and five other prefectures. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday that a state of emergency was being extended to a broader area due to a rapid rise of coronavirus cases in those regions. But he added that ... ( read original story ...)

Beds almost at capacity and an estimated 17,000 people with symptoms waiting for treatment ... ( read original story ...)

Gamba Osaka said on Friday they have fired head coach Tsuneyasu Miyamoto after a woeful start to the new J1 League campaign left last year's runners-up in the relegation zone. The 2008 Asian champions ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is set to further expand a coronavirus state of emergency, currently in Tokyo and five other prefectures, to nine areas as the government is determined to hold the Olympics in just over two ... ( read original story ...)

An arrested Japanese freelance reporter has left for home after being released by Myanmar’s ruling junta in what it called a gesture of friendship to Japan ... ( read original story ...)

A petition calling for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics which garnered 350,000 signatures in nine days was submitted to organizers on Friday, reflecting growing public opposition to the event as ... ( read original story ...)

We are in Tokyo’s Kappabashi dist­rict, a stretch of road about a kilometre long packed with more than 170 shops catering to professional chefs, kitchenware geeks and Japanese home cooks. Known in the ... ( read original story ...)

Critics of Japan's plan to hold the Tokyo Olympics despite a fourth wave of coronavirus infections submitted a petition on Friday signed by 350,000 people over nine days calling for the Games to be ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is further expanding a coronavirus state of emergency, currently in Tokyo and five other prefectures, to nine areas as the government is determined to hold the Olympics in just over two months. ( read original story ...)

Japan to declare state of emergency in three more prefectures; Ireland says vaccine programme will be unaffected by IT shutdown ... ( read original story ...)

With just over two months before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, Japan is expanding its state of emergency to try and contain a more infectious strain of COVID-19.Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura ... ( read original story ...)

Japan aims to raise average minimum wages to 1,000 yen ($9) an hour as soon as possible, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday, a move likely to provoke stiff opposition from small and mid-size ... ( read original story ...)

Differences in the account of the death of a 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman in detention at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau hav ... ( read original story ...)