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 ...)
The world’s oldest living person pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics torch relay over fears she would 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 ...)
Japan, S.Korea meet with Blinken despite rifts
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday met jointly with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts to discuss North Korea, bringing together the allies despite renewed rifts. ( read original story ...)
Lord Coe hails Tokyo Olympics test event in Sapporo
Lord Coe has said a half-marathon test event in Japan’s northern city of Sapporo has made him confident that the Olympic marathon can be held successfully in the city when the T ... ( read original story ...)
Coe gives stamp of approval to Tokyo Olympic test event
The head of the world governing body of track and field says a half-marathon test event run in Japan's northern city of Sapporo left him “full of trust” that the Olympic marathon can be held successfu ... ( read original story ...)