Tag: Yokohama

Kawasaki Frontale show their pedigree in J1 League, while there were ups and downs in the K League 1. Yu Kobayashi steered J1 League champions Kawasaki Frontale to victory, while Vissel Kobe and ... ( read original story ...)

On International Women’s Day, the IOC talks with tennis star Naomi Osaka on the importance of sport and strong female role models in the fight for gender equality. ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan’s biggest review of its monetary policy in almost five years will maintain monetary easing but lay the groundwork for a “nimble” response to changing conditions, according to the ... ( read original story ...)

The United States, Japan, Australia and India plan to hold the first meeting of their leaders this week under the so-called Quad framework, three government sources in Japan said. The Quadrilateral ... ( read original story ...)

J. Mark Ramseyer has ignited international uproar for a paper claiming that Koreans who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan, many of them teenagers, had willingly chosen to work as prostitutes. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan's coronavirus vaccination program is in disarray — mostly from self-inflicted wounds. Vaccinations are at a crawl, upending hopeful predictions that life could start to return to normal ... ( read original story ...)

A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as Japan launches its inoculation campaign, at Tokyo Medical Center in Tokyo, Japan February ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Castle's two iconic golden statues of a mythical half-tiger, half-fish creature were taken down Monday to spend several months on exhibition in the central Japan city. A helicopter lifted the ... ( read original story ...)

What if the quake that hit Tohoku 10 years ago happened along the Nankai Trough to the south of Japan? Well, experts are predicting this very scenario. ( read original story ...)

Japan's internal affairs minister removed a senior bureaucrat from his post and apologised on Monday for what he said could be a breach of the law after an inquiry showed the official attended meals ... ( read original story ...)

No timing has been set for when a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga might happen, Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday. Chief Cabinet ... ( read original story ...)

Deserted farms stand in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, where a catastrophic meltdown still reverberates. Ten years later, AP journalists have returned to document the communities that were ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - More than 110,000 Olympic volunteers had their dream summer all mapped out for 2020. But now, with the Games postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic and for many still in doubt, ... ( read original story ...)

The chief executive of SBI Holdings, the financial conglomerate that owns Japan’s biggest online brokerage, said he plans to pull his company’s operations out of Hong Kong because “without freedom, ... ( read original story ...)

The tables have turned and for the first time ever at Tokyo 2020, women are set to outnumber men on Team GB, writes Tom Harle. ( read original story ...)

Clippers star Kawhi Leonard said he plans to play on Team USA during this summer's Tokyo Olympics. In other news, Paul George said his health is good. ( read original story ...)