A Japanese government adviser told the Harvard University endowment fund that its vote at Toshiba Corp's annual shareholders meeting could be subject to a regulatory probe should it vote against the ... ( read original story ...)
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Apart from Japan, only New Zealand (after an overt and brutal lockdown), China, Macau, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, UAE and Qatar. I doubt that any country in Europe or the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Top Court Allows Retrial For ‘Longest’ Death Row Prisoner
Japan's highest court has upheld a ruling granting a retrial to a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, a lawyer for the 84-year-old said on Wednesday. Iwao Hakamada has lived ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka firm starts selling ‘fastest accelerating EV in the world’
WAKAYAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A company in western Japan started selling earlier this month what it calls "the fastest accelerating electric vehicle in the world" which takes only 1.69 seconds to ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics name Hiroshi Sasaki director for ceremonies
The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee appointed Hiroshi Sasaki on Wednesday as the head creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and ... ( read original story ...)
Caring for both regular, COVID-19 patients in Japan getting difficult – minister
Offering medical care to both regular patients and COVID-19 patients in Japan are becoming difficult, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Wednesday, as daily infections rose to record highs ... ( read original story ...)
Top Japan law firm to let foreign lawyers become equity partners
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has become the first of Japan’s Big Four law firms to let foreign lawyers become full equity partners, as the quartet fights international rivals for advisory work on ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo announces new creative team in rush to streamline ceremonies
Tokyo Olympics officials on Wednesday announced a new creative team that will be responsible for redesigning the opening and closing ceremonies at next year's Games, which will be pared back due to ... ( read original story ...)
New Director Picked For ‘Restrained’ Tokyo Olympic Ceremonies
Organisers of the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics said Wednesday they have picked a new creative director to redesign "simpler and more restrained" opening and closing ceremonies for next ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s ‘Twitter Killer’ Drops Death Sentence Appeal
A Japanese man dubbed the "Twitter killer" has withdrawn an appeal of his guilty verdict and death sentence over the murder of nine people, a court official said Wednesday. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, ... ( read original story ...)
Kitchen equipment piles up as pandemic shutters Japan’s restaurants
A truck laden with kitchen sinks, cutlery, pots and pans pulls up to a warehouse in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, and workers begin to unload the goods taken from shuttered restaurants - victims of the ... ( read original story ...)
Fashion face-off: Over 250 kinds of masks available at Yokohama pop-up store
A specialty store selling more than 250 kinds of face masks has opened at a shopping and entertainment complex in this city south of Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
Japan and South Korea scramble jets to track Russian and Chinese bomber patrol
Joint Russia and China patrol over the Pacific signals stronger military ties between Moscow and Beijing ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to ban entry of non-Japanese from UK due to coronavirus mutation
Japanese people from the United Kingdom from Thursday following the emergence of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, public broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)
Tennis: Osaka speaks out for athletes’ right to protest injustice
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka, writing in The New York Times on Monday, urged athletes to use their platforms to speak out on social issues and defy those telling them to stick to sports. En route ... ( read original story ...)
Official price tag of Tokyo Olympics rises 22% to $15.4 billion
The official cost of the postponed Tokyo Olympics has increased by 22% to $15.4 billion, according to the local organizing committee. ( read original story ...)