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Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 1, 2021

Belinda Bencic outlasts Marketa Vondrousova for women's singles gold medal

Prior to taking Centre Court for the gold medal match of the Tokyo Olympic women's tennis singles competition, Switzerland's Belinda Bencic received a message from Swiss tennis great Roger Federer.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Australian swimmer Emma McKeon closing in on record medal haul

Australian Emma McKeon could bow out of Tokyo 2020 on Sunday as the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympics.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Samurai Japan cruises past Mexico at Tokyo Games

Japan improved to 2-0 at the Tokyo Games. This win, however, was much less stressful than the last.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

From despair to Olympic gymnastics debut: Japan's 'other Kohei'

Nobody was surprised when a Japanese gymnast named Kohei made it through to the men's apparatus finals. The shock was that it wasn't former Olympic champion 'King' Kohei Uchimura.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta beats listless Novak Djokovic for bronze

Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta claimed the bronze medal in the tennis men's singles at the Tokyo Games on Saturday, triumphing 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3 over a listless Novak Djokovic, a day after the Serbian was stopped in his bid to complete a historic "Golden Slam."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2021

Amazon pandemic bump fades as vaccinated shoppers leave home

The world's biggest e-commerce retailer on Thursday reported sales and gave a forecast that fell short of expectations.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Xander Schauffele clings to gold medal position in Olympic golf as Hideki Matsuyama lurks

Matsuyama drained a clutch putt for par on 18 to finish with a four-under 67, keeping him a stroke off the pace heading into the final round.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Russia emboldened to continue cheating, says USADA chief

Russia is competing in Tokyo as representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) because the country was stripped of its flag and anthem for doping offenses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2021

Walmart and Disney impose vaccination measures on some staff

Disney says all salaried staff working in-person in the U.S. must be inoculated, and is giving affected workers 60 days to comply and making certain limited exceptions.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Jul 31, 2021

Skateboarding slang comes to the hallowed halls of NHK

'Hella risky' and 'totally hot' are not the usual terms that NHK commentators use on air, but Ryo Sejiri isn't your usual commentator.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Japanese fans enjoy Olympics at rare public viewing

A gathering at a theater in Gunma Prefecture saw 54 watch a volleyball game while maintaining social distance and keeping their masks on.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Caeleb Dressel shatters world record to win Olympic 100 meter butterfly gold medal

American Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men's 100 meter butterfly gold medal on Saturday with a world record time of 49.45 to pick up his second individual gold of the Tokyo Games and Australia's Kaylee McKeown timed her swim perfectly to win the 200 meter backstroke.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Jul 31, 2021

Roger Dahl on athletes' ambitions at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 31, 2021

Japanese-style coffee is rooted in the local kissaten, but its reach is global

Brew methods and tools connected with Japan's local coffee shops have held an outsize influence on specialty coffee, permeating third-wave coffee shops and home setups around the world.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 31, 2021

The risk of vote-splitting makes casinos more likely in Yokohama

Press outlets begin to speculate on the true intentions of the Yokohama mayoral race's many independent candidates.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Britain takes home first-ever triathlon mixed-relay gold at Tokyo Games

Alex Yee delivered a superb final leg as Britain won the inaugural triathlon mixed relay gold medal on Saturday, their four-person team completing a wonderful week for the country, after also collecting two silvers in the individual events.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 31, 2021

More women are (finally) calling the shots for whiskey

In the American whiskey business, women have long played a quiet and underappreciated role. But in the past few years, they've started to take on leadership roles in production.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Olympic success gives Hong Kong an emotional lift in hard times

As China clamps down on its civil and political rights, Hong Kong is finding solace and hope in its best-ever Olympic showing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 31, 2021

Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, warns U.S. health authority

The Centers for Disease Control recommends a return to universal wearing of face masks to reduce transmission.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

What to watch on Day 8 of the Tokyo Olympics

A Jamaican sprinting legend goes for gold and Japan's men's soccer team begins the knockout round looking to turn some more heads on Day 8 of the Tokyo Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021

Record haul: Japan wins men's epee team event for 17th gold medal of the Tokyo Games

Japan took just under a week to earn a national record 17 golds at the Tokyo Olympics, topping the total won at the 1964 Tokyo Games and 2004 Athens Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021

Olympic athletes are testing rules and taking a knee for Black Lives Matter

The pickup in demonstrations follows the International Olympic Committee's recent decision to relax decades-old restrictions on athlete expression.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021

South Korea's An San brushes off hairstyle critics to win third gold

Top-seeded An held her nerve as both her final and semifinal went to shootoffs, downing Elena Osipova of the Russian Olympic Committee to take gold.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021

Japanese skateboarders hope Olympics will mark a turning point

Skateboarding is often perceived as an activity for rebellious teenagers, but devotees of the sport hope that gold medals by Japanese athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will change that image.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

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