Tag: Japan

Kentaro Kobayashi, show director for the Games' opening event, was fired due to a joke he made about the Holocaust in a comedy act in 1998

The one-year project with US$2.2 million funding from Japan aims to help improve the safety and health of workers in MSMEs

Tokyo entered a new state of emergency on Monday, less than two weeks before the Games begin

If confirmed, the ban on spectators would mark the latest blow to the troubled Olympics, delayed by a year because of the pandemic

Across from the gleaming stadium, and just uphill from the site of his now-destroyed former home, is a small park with a set of Olympic rings

The reactor is the oldest to be restarted since the 2011 Fukushima disaster

Myanmar authorities arrested Yuki Kitazumi, a freelance reporter, and charged him with spreading false information

The court recognized Japan's right to state immunity from overseas lawsuits

Health authorities fear a virus variant is unleashing a fourth wave of infections just 107 days before the Tokyo Olympics begins

While a new law will be needed before same-sex marriages can actually take place, a lawyer called the ruling "revolutionary”