Tag: sapporo

TOKYO (AP) -- The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics promise to be the best. They're being promoted just like the Olympics, planning is ahead of recent games in Rio de Janeiro and London, and the athletes village ... ( read original story ...)

Top seed Angelique Kerber will face Naomi Osaka, Sloane Stephens and Kiki Bertens in the round-robin phase of the WTA Finals. The two groups for the lucrative season-ending competition were drawn on F... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government on Friday ordered a company ... KYB executive Keisuke Saito told reporters in a news conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation. ( read original story ...)

BERLIN -- Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of a joint mission by European and Japanese space agencies to send twin probes to Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. An Ariane 5 r... ( read original story ...)

The list of 70 suspected buildings around Japan included the central government building housing the transport ministry, where the news conference was being held, with the officials saying they were h... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s key inflation gauge edged up in September, bringing the Bank of Japan back to the halfway point toward its price target, though gains are still largely limited to energy. Key Ta... ( read original story ...)

U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka scored a date with "Creed" star Michael B. Jordan, thanks to a little matchmaking by Ellen DeGeneres. The talk show host wished the 21-year-old tennis pro a happy ... ( read original story ...)

Services like this are especially needed in ageing Japan. With nearly 28 percent of the population over 65, mobility is increasingly limited and the country is struggling for working-age employees. To... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s annual core consumer inflation ticked up in September but remained at half the pace of the central bank’s elusive 2 percent target, underscoring the challenge of meeting the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese daily news outlet Sankei News reports. Highlighting the complex tax filing regime currently in place for Japanese citizens, officials from the committee — which advises the government ... ( read original story ...)

Oct. 18 (UPI) --Michael B. Jordan wished Naomi Osaka a happy birthday by asking her out on a date. The 31-year-old actor invited Osaka to the premiere of his movie Creed 2 in a tweet Wednesday after E... ( read original story ...)

Ellen DeGeneres has done everything she possibly could to help Naomi Osaka bag a date with Michael B. Jordan, and now her constant meddling has finally paid off. DeGeneres sent Osaka, who turned ... ( read original story ...)

But this year, Japan-based Weather News reports that there have already been sightings of the delicate, fleeting blooms up and down the country and months ahead of schedule. The site claims that over ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan recorded a trade surplus for September of 139.6 billion yen (US$1.2 billion), but exports fell 1.2 per cent from the previous year, marking the first decline since 2016, after several n... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s exports fell in September for the first time since 2016 as shipments to the United States and China declined, likely impeding third quarter economic growth and adding to conc... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s exports unexpectedly fell in September -- the first drop in almost two years -- as natural disasters disrupted economic activity, while higher energy prices continued to feed ga... ( read original story ...)