Tag: sapporo

Qualifier Kimberly Birrell reached her first WTA semifinal after coming from 5-2 down in the first set to defeat wild card Sara Saito in the Kinoshita Group Japan Open quarterfinals. ( read original story ...)

Diane Parry will take on Clara Tauson in the WTA Osaka, Japan Women Singles 2024 quarterfinals on Friday, October 18. Watch tennis, other live sports and more on Fubo. Use our link to sign up for a ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures have launched a joint investigative team over a series of robberies and other crimes that are likely being carried out by people solicited through social media. ( read original story ...)

While progress has been made, gender equality in directing, screenwriting and producing is still slow, with women holding only 10-20% of these roles worldwide,” says Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) senior programmer Andrijana Cvetkovikj, ( read original story ...)

Sadly, Osaka won't be able to play in her home tournament in Tokyo next week as she still deals with a back injury. ( read original story ...)

Chairman Ando Hiroyasu & programming head Shozo Ichiyama are improving ties between a reinvigorated Japanese film industry and international markets. ( read original story ...)

Amid a spate of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area, there were also suspected related cases in Tochigi Prefecture and Sapporo, where an ( read original story ...)

Police in Tokyo have arrested a group of Thai nationals on suspicion of stealing copper cables from a solar power generation facility in suburban Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

CNBC's Lin Lin reports on how ramen shops in Japan are trying to cope with rising costs and weigh passing those higher prices onto consumers. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s largest labor union federation aims to secure wage increases averaging at least 5% in next year’s pay negotiations, in a bid to maintain momentum after major gains this year, according to ... ( read original story ...)

According to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the moon appeared larger because it approached about 357,000 kilometers from Earth, the closest distance at full moon. Compared with the ... ( read original story ...)

The annual inflation rate in Japan fell to 2.5% in September 2024 from 3.0% in the prior month, marking the lowest reading since April. Electricity prices increased the least in three months as the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's top currency diplomat, Atsushi Mimura, said on Friday that recent currency moves are "somewhat one-sided and rapid," in a fresh warning against speculative trading as the yen fell past the key ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Osaka have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of stealing four luxury watches from a store. According to police, the incident occurred at around 3:50 p.m. in Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo Ward, ( read original story ...)

Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of some of his fellow ... ( read original story ...)

A tale of two auto shows in Tokyo and Paris offers a surprising verdict about who’s better prepared for the future. ( read original story ...)