Tag: tokyo

Yokohama TWS, an Italy-based tire manufacturer that’s part of the Japan-based Yokohama Rubber Co., has announced the appointment of Elio Bartoli as its new company president, effective Dec. 1. Bartoli ... ( read original story ...)

A win-or-go-home Game 5 of the National League Division Series that featured starting pitchers Yu Darvish and Yoshinobu Yamamoto — and, of course, slugger Shohei Ohtani — became Japan’s most-watched ... ( read original story ...)

After a yearlong review by the Pentagon, Tricare's overseas contractor will create a call center to assist civilian employees with appointment scheduling and up-front payments. ( read original story ...)

Japan confirmed on Thursday the season's first avian influenza outbreak, with authorities identifying around 19,000 birds for culli ... ( read original story ...)

Romania's Ana Bogdan advanced the quarterfinals of the Japan Open with a 6-0, 7-6 (5) victory over No. 4 seed Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic on Thursday in Osaka. Bogdan overcame a 3-1 deficit in the tiebreak to finish in just under 2 hours, ( read original story ...)

The offending student previously went to the same elementary school as the victim, and the two were members of the same youth sports team. ( read original story ...)

At the Kinoshita Group Japan Open, Sara Saito and Aoi Ito have become the first pair of under-21 Japanese players to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA event since 1996. ( read original story ...)

Last Friday’s decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres was the most-watched Major League Baseball postseason game on record in Japan, ( read original story ...)

In baseball-mad Japan—where Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is a national hero—the same game averaged 12.9 million viewers. ( read original story ...)

World number one Iga Swiatek has added Belgian Wim Fissette, a former coach to top-ranked players like Naomi Osaka, Kim Clijsters and Victoria Azarenka to her team, the 23-year-old Pole said on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Chubu Electric Power plans to further invest in overseas decarbonisation assets, including renewable energy, small modular reactors (SMRs), and carbon capture storage (CCS), to fuel future ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's ruling party may lose its majority in the lower house, according to media polling ahead of the Oct. 27 election, meaning it would likely have to rely on coalition partner Komeito to stay in ... ( read original story ...)