Asia Japan Mizuho Bank suffered its fifth system failure of the year yesterday, that made impossible to complete deposits, withdrawals, transfers and other transactions at its branch counters across the country
Asia Japan National civil servants will be able to have up to 10 days of paid leave per year to receive fertility treatment from next January, in a bid to support population growth against a declining birth rate
Asia Japan Over 11.000 athletes have competed in almost 350 events in the Tokyo 2020 Games: an epic undertaking in pandemic conditions; the closing ceremony, without public and athletes having to leave 48hrs after their competition, will handle the baton to Paris
Asia Japan Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games open today; since the first modern Olympics in 1886, the Games have never been postponed before, while they have been cancelled in 1916, 1940 and 1944 because of World War I and II
Asia Japan Despite the first recorded cases of Covid infections in the Olympic village, the captain of the Japanese men's football team has called for a reconsideration of the ban on spectators with the games opening in 4 days
Asia Japan With Japan's basketball player Rui Hachimura and wrestling champion Yui Susaki as flag bearers, for the first time in the history of the Olympic Games each participating country will have one male and one female athlete as flag bearers
Asia Japan The main tower of Kumamoto Castle, the samurai fortress completed in 1607 and damaged by an earthquake in 2016, has reopened to the public
Asia Japan Japanese export in May recorded the strongest increase in 41 years, +49.6% on last year, mainly driven by robust demand for cars and auto parts
Asia Japan Games-related events in Tokyo are being cancelled due to the pandemic; the Community Live Site, which includes public viewing and all events has been officially deleeted
Asia Japan There is great attention on the progress of the vaccination campaign in the country, which will have an important bearing on the decision on whether to hold or cancel the Olympics
Asia Japan The town of Noto in Ishikawa Prefecture spent 800 million yen of relief funds from the Government to build a statue of a giant squid, 13 feet high and 29.5 feet long
Asia Japan Yasuko Tamaki, a 90-year-old Japanese woman, has worked for the same company since 1956 and has earned a Guinness World Record as the world's oldest office manager