Tokyo's favorite pro baseball team scuttles practice games 1 day after resuming; soccer club's training grinds to a halt and sumo stays side-lined. ( read original story ...)
Paul Browning’s Role Expands to MHPS Chief Regional Officer of the Americas and Co-Chief Regional Officer of Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Leading the Charge to Enable Customers to Decarbonize Power Grids and Advance Human Prosperity —YOKOHAMA, Japan — Paul F. Browning, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mitsubishi ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Dentsu gets $700 million windfall from government SME aid scheme amid opposition criticism
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc has received almost $700 million via a government contract to provide back-office services for a scheme to help virus-hit firms, under a framework ... ( read original story ...)
UBS Global Wealth Management is ‘overweight’ on Asia ex-Japan stocks
Adrian Zuercher of UBS Global Wealth Management says stocks in Asia ex-Japan may be "the only region" that will have positive earnings growth this year. ( read original story ...)
Japan Warns Its Banks About Risky U.S. Debt
Japanese regulators have warned the nation’s banks for the first time about the risk of investing in overseas securitized corporate loans, which have run into trouble from a wave of U.S. bankruptcies. ( read original story ...)
Japan to look at building a common infrastructure for digital payments
Japan's three biggest banks have set up a study group that will look at possibly building a common settlement infrastructure for digital payments, an initiative backed by the central bank and the ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Wuhan finishes mass testing effort, isolates 300
People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus walk through China Town in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. A coronavirus state of emergency was lifted, ... ( read original story ...)
Global cases pass 6.3m; alert issued in Tokyo amid fear of new surge in cases – as it happened
Cases in Africa pass 150,000; Germany eases travel ban; Wuhan doctor who worked with whistleblower dies. This blog is now closed ... ( read original story ...)
Verhaeren to return home leaving new swim coach for Tokyo 2021
The Dutchman will return to Europe for family reasons as Rohan Taylor takes over as Dolphins head coach ahead of the rescheduled Olympic Games. ( read original story ...)
All Nippon Airways staffs make medical gowns in Tokyo
An employees of All Nippon Airways makes medical gowns at the ANA(All Nippon Airways) Blue Base in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Grand crew, cabin attendant and other sections of 120 ... ( read original story ...)
Nagoya Grampus’ Kanazaki tests positive for coronavirus
Nagoya Grampus forward Mu Kanazaki has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Japan’s Kyodo news agency first reported the findings and cited Japan’s soccer J-League. The J-League announced last ... ( read original story ...)
Nagoya Grampus’ Mu Kanazaki tests positive for COVID-19
Nagoya Grampus forward Mu Kanazaki has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Japan’s Kyodo news agency first reported the findings and cited Japan’s soccer J-League. The J-League announced last ... ( read original story ...)
Soccer: Grampus forward Kanazaki tests positive for coronavirus
Nagoya Grampus forward Mu Kanazaki has tested positive for the new coronavirus, the J-League first division team said Tuesday, less t ... ( read original story ...)
Death of reality TV show star in Japan spotlights cyber bullying
The recent death of Hana Kimura, a bubbly, pink-haired 22-year-old wrestler and reality TV show star, has spotlighted a rise in cyber bullying in Japan and prompted swift official pledges to do more ... ( read original story ...)
The ‘Japan model’ that brought coronavirus to heel
In a characteristically Japanese way, we have all but brought this epidemic under control in the last month and a half,” the prime minister declared. He lavished praise on the public but Mr Abe’s ... ( read original story ...)
How Imperial Japan Struck Targets Near the West Coast
Japan would have needed to defeat America's navy in order to actually invade the West Coast. And even then, it might not have had the resources. It seemed like just another ordinary day at sea. Early ... ( read original story ...)