By DAISUKE MAEDA/ Staff Writer
March 21, 2021 at 17:56 JST
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, and Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee, shown in video. Seen in front row are Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, and Tamayo Marukawa, minister in charge of Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics. (Pool)
Japan's decision to bar international spectators at the Tokyo Olympics is a bitter pill for the government to swallow in light of its earlier hopes of hosting the events in their entirety to help kickstart the battered tourism industry. [Read More]
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A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
