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STAMFORD, Conn. —NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Paris Olympics continues to draw large audiences with four-day total viewership average up 77% from Tokyo Olympics and its Monday July 29 coverage delivering 31.3 million viewers on NBC, Peacock, and across key NBCU platforms according to official data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. ( read original story ...)

A Courtyard by Marriott hotel has opened in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Located in the city’s beautiful Nakajima Park area, the Courtyard by Marriott Sapporo is just a three-minute walk from the Nakajima Koen ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s state-backed chip startup Rapidus has a similarly long-shot ambition. In a country that currently produces 40 nanometer semiconductors, the two-year-old venture has the goal of leapfrogging generations of innovation and producing bleeding-edge 2 nanometer chips in 2027. ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan is expected to detail plans to taper its huge bond buying on Wednesday and debate whether to raise interest rates, signalling its resolve to steadily unwind a decade of massive monetary stimulus. ( read original story ...)

Around 150 people in Japan were struck ill and a woman died after eating grilled eel from a popular restaurant in Yokohama, said the Japanese city’s health authorities on July 29. ( read original story ...)

Parkway Life REIT (PLife REIT) has agreed to acquire a nursing home property in the Osaka Prefecture, HIBISU Higashi Sumiyoshi, for JPY2.45 billion ($20.7 million). ( read original story ...)

The micro rover 'Tenacious' will fly on ispace's second HAKUTO-R lunar lander. The Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Japanese space exploration firm ispace has finished building a micro lunar rover, ... ( read original story ...)