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Celine Dion performs at Olympic Games' opening ceremony
Reuters, Published on 27/07/2024
» PARIS - Celine Dion made a comeback to the live stage on Friday singing Edith Piaf's classic "L'Hymne A l'Amour" to close the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Tokyo Olympics organisers bow to pressure, 'no spectators' Games
Reuters, Published on 09/07/2021
» TOKYO: After weeks of insisting that the Tokyo 2020 Games could go ahead with spectators, organisers finally bowed to political pressure and rising Covid-19 infections, banning almost all fans from the global sports event just two weeks before it opens.
Thai lifters banned from Olympics over doping
Reuters, Published on 24/01/2019
» LONDON: Thailand's weightlifters face a ban from the Tokyo 2020 Games after six positive tests, two of them from reigning Olympic champions, at last year's World Championships.
Report: Japan weighs daylight savings proposal
Reuters, Published on 06/08/2018
» TOKYO: Enduring a deadly heatwave this summer, Japan is considering adopting daylight saving time from next year, so that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games can stage events during cooler hours, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Tuna goes for $323,000 at final New Year auction
Reuters, Published on 05/01/2018
» TOKYO: In the final New Year's auction at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market on Friday, the owner of an international sushi restaurant shelled out more than $300,000 (10.4 million baht) for a prime bluefin tuna and said he was "very happy" with the result.
Foreign workforce in Japan tops 1m
Business, Reuters, Published on 28/01/2017
» The number of foreign workers in Japan surpassed one million for the first time last year, as the labour-strapped country struggles to find enough Japanese workers.
Japan's temples seek tourists
Business, Reuters, Published on 04/01/2016
» EIHEIJI, JAPAN — Deep in a forest near Japan's western shore, a 13th-century Buddhist temple where Steve Jobs once dreamed of becoming a Zen monk has teamed up with a Tokyo skyscraper builder to seek the commercial enlightenment of foreign tourist dollars.
Japan's Abe to reshuffle half of cabinet
Reuters, Published on 07/10/2015
» TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to retain close allies in key posts in a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, playing it safe as he refocuses on the economy after enacting divisive security legislation that dented his popularity.
Japanese hotels offer tight space for a tight budget
Business, Reuters, Published on 09/06/2015
» TOKYO: With Japan's tourist numbers and hotel prices on the rise thanks to a weaker yen, developers are getting creative with a new niche line in stylish but cheap accommodation in bunks, cabins and pods of all shapes and sizes.