Olympic officials have expressed confidence next year’s Tokyo Games will go ahead but admitted they will look unlike any Games that have gone before. ( read original story ...)
Osaka cops busts orgy organizer in business ‘for years’
Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested the organizer of orgy parties in Osaka City on suspicion of prostitution ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Marathon altered amid coronavirus for second straight year
It’s the second straight year that the Tokyo Marathon — one of six annual World Marathon Majors — has been altered amid the coronavirus. This year’s Tokyo Marathon was held as scheduled on March 1, ... ( read original story ...)
Could have Japan Post avoided the disastrous Toll purchase?
ABC News The client was Japan Post. The target, Toll Group, the Melbourne trucking company that Paul Little had taken public – marrying his IPO banker – and built into an $8 billion-revenue logistics ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Car Trading Platform AutoCoinCars Shows Promising Signs of Growth
AutoCoinCars aims to provide a reliable and swift platform to cryptocurrency owners to buy and sell their cars. The forum connects the buyers with the dealers who accept cryptocurrency. The swift and ... ( read original story ...)
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Crosses $11K While DOJ Takes Aim at Crypto
Bitcoin Hits $11K as Square Exposes $2.3T Corporate Money Pot The list of challengers isn’t short. In no particular order, there’s Tron, EOS, Neo, Polkadot, Algorand, Cardano and Avalanche, ... ( read original story ...)
IPO Launch: Praxis Precision Medicines Seeks $126 Million In U.S. IPO
Praxis was founded to advance a pipeline of treatments for both broad psychiatric-related and rare diseases of the central nervous system having to do with neuronal imbalances. ( read original story ...)
Cell wall degrading enzyme is integral for plant parasitism and cross-species grafting
Using the model Orobanchaceae parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum, scientists from Nagoya University and other research institutes from Japan have discerned the molecular mechanisms underlying ... ( read original story ...)
Sequoia invests in potential Tokyo unicorn as it hedges China bets
TOKYO -- Sequoia Capital will purchase a stake in Tokyo-based construction app startup Andpad, Nikkei has learned, marking the first investment in Japan for the U.S. venture capital group. Sequoia's ... ( read original story ...)
2 remote Japan towns seek to host nuclear waste storage site
Two remote towns in northern Japan struggling with rapidly graying and shrinking populations are applying to possibly host a high-level radioactive waste storage site as a means of economic survival ... ( read original story ...)
Man arrested after 11-year-old girl found in his car
Police in Nagoya have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of abducting an 11-year-old girl, who was found in his car after he had been driving her around for awhile. According to police, ... ( read original story ...)
Study shows LED-based UV irradiation prevents bone and muscle loss in aging mice
A research team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed that narrow-range ultraviolet (UV) irradiation using light emitting diodes (LEDs) safely increases serum vitamin D levels in aging mice and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, Mongolia to cooperate on ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’
The foreign ministers of Japan and Mongolia agreed Friday to cooperate in promoting a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific," a vision that Tokyo is pushing with the U.S. and ... ( read original story ...)
The enchanting part of Japan where John and Yoko found peace
Along with the fact that the couple in question, posing with their son Sean, were once two of the most recognisable people on the planet: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, on one of the four family holidays ... ( read original story ...)
Thomas Bach to visit new Japanese PM, Tokyo Olympic leaders
IOC President Thomas Bach is planning a trip to Japan next month to meet with new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and organizers of the postponed Tokyo Olympics, organizing ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Marathon: 2021 event rescheduled to October over coronavirus concerns
Next year's Tokyo Marathon is rescheduled from March to October because of continuing concerns around the coronavirus crisis. in Japan. ( read original story ...)