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A voluntary request to have food establishments in the capital’s central 23 wards operate under reduced business hours will be extended into next month, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced Thursday. ( read original story ...)

A search is underway for a construction worker who is believed to have fallen into a huge disused underground tank in the city of Yokohama, near Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

Design comprises an imperfect ring made up of a dozen bouncing red blobs – some with googly eyes ... ( read original story ...)

Hours after Naomi Osaka said she would not be playing in her semifinal, the Western & Southern Open announced the tournament was taking Thursday off. ( read original story ...)

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has pulled out of a major tennis tournament in New York in a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. "As a black woman I feel as though there are much more ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka has joined the wave of strikes across the major US sports leagues by withdrawing from her semi-final at the Western & Southern Open ... ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK (AP) Fourth-seeded Naomi Osaka reached the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open on Wednesday and withdrew a few hours later in a call for racial justice, drawing quick support from other ... ( read original story ...)

"If I can get a conversation started in a majority white sport I consider that a step in the right direction," former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka said. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka battled back from a set down to defeat Anett Kontaveit 4-6 6-2 7-5 on Wednesday and reach the Western & Southern Open semi-finals for the first time while British number one Johanna Konta ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka said she has pulled out of the semi-finals of the Southern & Western Open tennis tournament in protest at racial injustice. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka reached semifinals of the Western & Southern Open, then withdrew from the tournament in a call for racial justice. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Naomi Osaka withdrew from her WTA Western & Southern Open semi-final match Thursday in New York to protest the police shooting of an unarmed black man in Wisconsin. Osaka, a two-time Grand ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka pulled out of the semi-finals of the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament on Wednesday in protest at racial injustice. Osaka, who has a Japanese mother and Haitian father and has been ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka tweeted that as a black woman, she feels compelled to pull out of the tournament to put a focus on police shooting black people. ( read original story ...)