September 21, 2023
Fans watch the F1 Tokyo Festival outside Kabukicho Tower in Shinjuku Ward on Wednesday. | Dan Orlowitz Fans await the start of the F1 Tokyo Festival event in Tokyo’s Kabukicho nightlife district on Wednesday. | Dan Orlowitz Fans watch the F1 Tokyo Festival outside Kabukicho Tower in Shinjuku on Wednesday. | Dan Orlowitz Yuki Tsunoda
READ MOREWorld Athletics president Sebastian Coe is looking forward to seeing Tokyo Olympic stadium packed with fans for the 2025 World Championships, but says the sport will feel the knock-on effects of the COVID pandemic through 2028. Coe, speaking Sunday in Eugene, Oregon, as the Diamond League finals concluded, said the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo
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Eugene, Oregon – Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, is looking forward to seeing Tokyo’s National Stadium packed with fans for the 2025 World Championships, but says the sport will feel the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through 2028. Coe, speaking on Sunday in Eugene, Oregon, after the Diamond League finals, said the postponement
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Former France international Bafetimbi Gomis made his J. League debut with a start for Kawasaki Frontale on Friday night, playing just over an hour in his team’s 1-0 win over FC Tokyo in the Tamagawa Clasico. The 38-year-old, who joined the four-time J1 champion from Galatasaray earlier this summer, attempted to assert himself as the
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THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) participated in the 37th Asean+3 Bond Market Forum (ABMF) Meeting held last July 24 to 27 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting was held jointly by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with the Asia-Pacific Financial Forum under the APEC Business Advisory Council, XBRL Asia Roundtable and the Asia Business Law
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Did Japanese authorities really put up an anti-Zelenskyy billboard demanding the president stop the war in Ukraine? It’s a viral social media post that’s been seen millions of times on different platforms, published in multiple languages. ADVERTISEMENT It alleges to show an advertisement broadcast in a busy street in Japan that says in English: “Stop Zelenskyy,
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Two prominent former Google researchers, one of whom was a co-inventor of the “transformer” artificial intelligence architecture that paved the way for the generative AI boom, announced on Thursday they had started a new AI company based in Tokyo. Sakana AI, founded by David Ha and Llion Jones, declined to disclose funding details. Jones is
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Now cleared to run for Poland after her drama at the Tokyo Olympics, Belarus-born sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is representing her new country in three events at the world championships this month. The Polish track federation said Tuesday that Tsimanouskaya is being selected for the 100 meters, 200 and 4×100 relay. She became eligible for her
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TOKYO: Tokyo stocks opened down on Monday after Wall Street slipped on weaker-than-expected US labor market data. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.97 percent, or 313.17 points, to 31,879.58 in early trade, while the broader Topix index lost 0.57 percent, or 12.88 points, to 2,261.75. “The market is expected to start under pressure after
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JapanRussia’s imposition of export controls on chip making tools Acceptance of US policy that limits China’s ability to produce advanced semiconductors worries some officials in Tokyo, who believe the US bellicose approach could hamper coordination and unnecessarily provoke Beijing. Starting this week, Japan is imposing restrictions on 23 types of equipment, ranging from machines that
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