Naomi Osaka is expanding a tennis program she launched in Japan last summer to locations in Los Angeles and Haiti. Play Academy, which Osaka created with Nike and Laureus Sport for Good, aims to ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka presents her new swim-suits collection
Naomi Osaka presented her new swimwear collection on Instagram, designed and produced in collaboration with Frankies Bikini. In the photo that can be seen on the Instagram profile of the Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard set to make history at Tokyo Olympics
History and controversy is set to made at the Tokyo Olympics this summer after the transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was effectively guaranteed a place in the women’s super heavyweight category. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay in Kumamoto
Torchbearer, former badminton player of Japan's national team Kimiko Jinnai, runs the flame during the last leg of the first day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay at Yatsushiro harmony-hall in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan raises issue of ‘comfort women’ with South Korea
Japan urged South Korea to deliver an "appropriate" response amid unresolved issues over compensation claims from former Korean "comfort women." ... ( read original story ...)
How to ‘Travel’ to Japan This Summer
We can’t attend the Olympic Games in Tokyo, but with these book, food and film recommendations from locals, we can immerse ourselves in the culture. Plus: an ‘intensely embarrassing’ reality dating ... ( read original story ...)
US, Japan, South Korea diplomats review North Korea strategy
The United States, Japan and South Korea are plowing ahead with efforts to push North Korea back to nuclear negotiations despite the North's rejection of ( read original story ...)
Sapporo earnings: here’s what Wall Street expects
Sapporo will be reporting earnings Q1.Analysts on Wall Street predict Sapporo will release losses per share of ¥71.920.Go here to track ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus live: Tokyo Olympics ‘to go ahead’ after test event; Kenya detects Indian variant
Seb Coe says Games in July will be ‘extremely good’ even without spectators; Kenya finds variant in the country days after Uganda also reported it ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics blow as Yoshihide Suga set to extend state of emergency
Tokyo and other large Japanese cities are set to extend a pandemic state of emergency next week, putting further pressure on authorities as they attempt to organise the Olympic Games during a surge in ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus live: two members of India G7 team test positive; Tokyo Olympics ‘to go ahead’ after test event
Delegation self-isolating after members test positive for Covid; Seb Coe says Games in July will be ‘extremely good’ even without spectators ... ( read original story ...)
The world’s oldest person pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics torch relay over fears she’d bring COVID-19 back to her nursing home
Kane Tanaka, 118, and her family "were concerned about spreading the virus at the nursing home," an official said. ( read original story ...)
Town in Japan builds giant squid with Covid relief funds
TOKYO -A coastal town in the western part of Japan has drawn ire on social media for using some of the coronavirus relief funds it was given by the government to build a statue of a giant squid in the ... ( read original story ...)
New dinosaur discovered in Japan named after Shinto god
On 27 April, it was reported in the English scientific journal Scientific Reports that a never-seen-before dinosaur fossil was discovered on Awaji Island, in the Hyogo prefecture of Japan. The fossil ... ( read original story ...)
Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else
Somewhere along the line Baron Von Ripper-off and the other gold-plated pretenders at the International Olympic Committee decided to treat Japan as their footstool. But Japan didn’t surrender its ... ( read original story ...)
Sebastian Coe expects Tokyo Olympics to go ahead after test event in Japan
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has reiterated that the Tokyo Olympics will take place in July despite the rising number of Covid cases in Japan ... ( read original story ...)