Experts say the notion of holding the Olympics as normal, with packed stadiums and grandeur, is unfathomable due to the trajectory of the pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Japan helps 87 companies to ‘exit China’ after pandemic exposed overreliance
Japan is paying 87 companies to shift production back home or into Southeast Asia after the coronavirus pandemic disrupted supply chains and exposed an overreliance on Chinese manufacturing. While ... ( read original story ...)
A year to go, rearranged Tokyo Games still shrouded in uncertainty
Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in uncertainty they are sure to be more muted than ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka governor says pref. hit by 2nd coronavirus wave, seeks youngsters’ cooperation
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura on July 20 expressed recognition that his western Japan prefecture is "experiencing a second wave, in terms of numbers" of novel coronavirus infections,. The number of ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: A year to go, rearranged Tokyo Games still shrouded in uncertainty
Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in uncertainty they are sure to be more muted than ... ( read original story ...)
Japan keeps fiscal tap wide open on budget spending requests to fight pandemic
Japan's budget for next fiscal year won't set a spending cap on requests aimed at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the finance minister said, suggesting the heavily indebted government would ramp up ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: ‘Violence and abuse are too often a part of the child athlete’s experience’ — report
Hitting children with bats and sticks, slapping them across the face, and holding their heads underwater to simulate drowning are some of the abusive coaching techniques allegedly used in Japan as ... ( read original story ...)
‘Violence and abuse are too often a part of the child athlete’s experience’ in Japan — report
Hitting children with bats and sticks, slapping them across the face, and holding their heads underwater to simulate drowning are some of the abusive coaching techniques allegedly used in Japan as ... ( read original story ...)
Human Rights Watch criticises Japan after report reveals abuse of athletes
A damning new study of sport in Japan has found child athletes have routinely suffered physical, sexual and verbal abuse from their coaches that led several take their own lives ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics Organizers Seek to Save Endangered Games
Organizers for the Tokyo Olympics are making health and safety plans for a pandemic-era Games that they still can’t ensure will take place next year, including the possibility that any spectators ... ( read original story ...)
Rocket Launches From Japan: Next Stop, Mars
Built by the United Arab Emirates, and lifting off from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, the Emirates Mars Mission is the first of three missions headed to the red planet this summer. ( read original story ...)
Major Theme Park Planned for Yokohama (Report)
Planning is underway to build a massive theme park in Yokohama, near Tokyo, according to Japanese media reports. If completed the park will be similar in size to Tokyo Disneyland. According to ... ( read original story ...)
Disneyland-style theme park eyed for Yokohama plot used by U.S.
Plans are in the cards to construct a theme park on the scale of Tokyo Disneyland at a site in this port city next to the capital that was used by the U.S. military for ... ( read original story ...)
New Nissan Electric Crossover SUV “Ariya” Displayed in Yokohama
Nissan Motors' new electric crossover SUV "Ariya" is displayed at the gallery of Nissan Motors global headquarters in Yokohama, Kanagawa-Prefecture, Japan on Saturday, July 18, 2020. Nissan unveiled ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: Human Rights Watch report documents abuse of child athletes in Japan
A Human Rights Watch report has found child athletes in Japan often suffer physical and verbal abuse and sometimes sexual abuse during training after documenting the experiences of over 800 athletes ... ( read original story ...)
Male company employee, 29, fatally stabs man in Yokohama; woman also hurt
Kanagawa police arrested a 29-year-old male company employee over the alleged fatal stabbing of a man at a residence in Yokohama City early Monday ... ( read original story ...)