Tag: sapporo

Flights from Seoul's Gimpo International Airport to Osaka and Taipei will resume later this week, the state-run airport operator here said Saturday, more than two years after the routes were suspended ... ( read original story ...)

While Vancouver’s hopes of hosting the 2030 Winter Games may have been dashed due to concerns by Canadian government officials about the cost to taxpayers, backers of Salt Lake City’s Olympic bid are ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Grampus striker Jakub Swierczok has been banned for four years by the Asian Football Confederation for a doping violation, the J1 League club announced. ( read original story ...)

Screening in the Tokyo International Film Festval’s Nippon Cinema Now section, “Remember to Breathe” is director Sugita Masakazu’s second feature, following his 2014 “Joy of Man’s Desiring,” ... ( read original story ...)

“I want people to be interested in climate change! What are the stories I can tell that avoid hitting that one ‘disaster’ note over and over?” —LO ... ( read original story ...)

Celebrated filmmakers to have emerged from Pink Eiga genre include Oscar-winner Yojiro Takita, auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takahisa Zeze, director of the opening film at this year’s Tokyo Film ... ( read original story ...)

Kawamura's 'A Hundred Flowers' is screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival after winning best director at San Sebastián earlier this year. ( read original story ...)

Prime minister Fumio Kishida unveiled the stimulus package, which includes subsidised electricity and gas bills for households and coupons for pregnant women, just hours after Bank of Japan governor ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita has revealed plans to create a committee aimed at enhancing anti-corruption measures. ( read original story ...)

When it comes to female athletes, it looks like tennis is certainly the place to be if you want to earn the big money, with eight of the top 15 from the sport, including the top three. Sportico have ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is the latest country to turn to enormous fiscal relief as it seeks to reduce the impact of geopolitical instability and rampant inflation. ( read original story ...)

Monsters and spirits –including 'tsukumogami,' which are made of everyday objects – in the 'Hyakki-Yagyō-Emaki' scroll, painted between the 14th and 16th centuries. Wikimedia CommonsThe word “waste” ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is in the final stages of negotiations with the United States to buy U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles, the Yomiuri daily reported on Friday, citing multiple unnamed Japanese government sources ... ( read original story ...)

Winter Olympics is estimated to cost Japanese city Sapporo a further ¥17 billion above the previous approximation. ( read original story ...)

Aichi Prefectural Police on Oct. 26 arrested two officials from a purported talent agency for allegedly persuading a woman who interviewed f ... ( read original story ...)

However, one of Tokyo’s major train operators has a request: please don’t get on the train wearing a costume that might scare people. In an announcement from Keio Corporation, operator of the ... ( read original story ...)