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TikTok announces $1.5bn deal to restart Indonesia online shop
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» JAKARTA: TikTok on Monday announced a $1.5 billion investment in GoTo in a deal that would allow the Chinese-owned short video app to restart its online shop in Indonesia.
Tokyo counts cost of $15 billion pandemic Olympics 'gamble'
AFP, Published on 09/08/2021
» TOKYO: Tokyo awoke to a huge bill and soaring coronavirus cases on Monday after pulling off a mid-pandemic Olympics that at times looked impossible and had a mixed reception to the end.
Typhoon Haishen heads to South Korea after slamming Japan
AFP, Published on 07/09/2020
» KAGOSHIMA, Japan: Powerful Typhoon Haishen approached South Korea on Monday after slamming southern Japan with record winds and heavy rains that prompted evacuation warnings for millions.
1964 Olympic torchbearer frets about virus-hit Olympic relay
AFP, Published on 24/03/2020
» YOKOSUKA, Japan: Even though it was 56 years ago, Kazuo Goto still vividly remembers his pride as he carried the Olympic flame on the last day of the torch relay when Tokyo hosted the Games in 1964.
'Protecting rapists': Protesters accuse Japan of failing women
AFP, Published on 11/09/2019
» TOKYO: Women's rights protesters are taking to the streets for the sixth time in as many months as anger mounts in Japan over 'outdated' rape laws, after a man was allowed to walk free despite sexually assaulting his daughter for years.