Tag: Yokohama

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 ...)

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 ...)

Most notably, tennis superstar Naomi Osaka once appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the host wasted no time trying to set her up with a handsome actor — without realizing that Osaka was actually ... ( read original story ...)

A 31-year-old man who stabbed a girl in Nagoya last year after at her request broke into her residence after carrying out the act ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s finance ministry has decided to tackle one of the great unanswered questions of innovation and finance. Can $100bn buy a nation back its mojo? In an effort to reignite Japan’s flame, the ... ( read original story ...)

The future remains precarious for Rikuzentakata, where more than 1,700 people died in the disaster, as many survivors have settled elsewhere and swaths of downtown lie unused. ( read original story ...)

Making a $130 billion profit in the stock market isn’t as fun as it seems—at least if you’re the Bank of Japan. ( read original story ...)