Tag: Japan

Father Edgar Gacutan’s nomination makes him the first Filipino to be named bishop in Japan

In the end, two massive screens stadium projected a retro display that called back to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics: the word "ARIGATO"

"What we have seen is now everybody is much more aware that everybody has a role to play in climate action"

Japan has seen a sharp increase in coronavirus cases with Tokyo recording 3,709 new cases on Tuesday

In the world event, the young athlete will represent Argentina, entrusting herself to God and wearing a "bracelet with a cross”

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