Tag Archives: Japanese

The captain of the Japan women’s artistic gymnastics team has withdrawn from the squad for the Paris Games after violating the team’s code of conduct by smoking.     Japanese Gymnastics Association officials said Shoko Miyata, 19, arrived in Japan on Thursday, July 18, after leaving the team’s training camp in Monaco for …

Customers who visited a Japanese restaurant in Lagos have gone on X to complain about the price of a meal on the restaurant’s menu.   An X user wrote that the Black Cod fish at the restaurant is now N87,000.   “We need a factory reset. This has gone too …

 Japanese man found guilty of carrying out an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio in 2019,  has been sentenced to death. The blaze that ripped through the studios of Kyoto Animation stunned the anime industry and its fans around the world. Shinji Aoba, now 45, broke …

U.S. Steel is an iconic example of the lost manufacturing muscle that President Biden says his economic policies will bring back to the United States. But last month, the storied-but-diminished company announced plans to be acquired by a Japanese competitor. That development has put Mr. Biden in an awkward bind …

Fans want to know a bit more about four-weight world champion Naoya Inoue and his personal life away from boxing. For example, is Naoya Inoue married? Who is his wife? Here is everything you need to know about the love life of ‘Monster’. Be sure not to miss out on …

President Biden welcomed his counterparts from Japan and South Korea to Camp David on Friday morning as he seeks to cement a newly fortified three-way alliance, bridging generations of friction between the two Asian powers to forge mutual security arrangements in the face of an increasingly assertive China. Mr. Biden …

Japanese music star, Shinjiro Atae has come out as gay. The Japanese pop artist, 34, an alum of the group AAA, made the emotional announcement at a fan event at Tokyo’s Cube Shibuya on Wednesday, July 26, according to the AP. “What I’m going to tell you now may not …

Students in Japan have been undergoing ‘smile education’ to relearn their social cues after years of wearing masks against Covid.   Keiko Kawano’s company, Egaoiku, has seen a more than four-fold jump in demand for smile instruction since last year, according to Mail Online.   A one-hour-long session costs 7,700 …

Although ticket prices for all sports events have gone up over the past years, sports fans are still willing to pay more. However, US sports fans continue spending way more money on buying tickets than any other nation. According to data presented by SportsLens.com, US sports fans are expected to …

Japanese people are now paying experts to teach them how to smile again because they have forgotten how to after spending three years wearing masks due to Covid.    Japan recently declared an end to pandemic restrictions, removing remaining border controls last week and ending mask restrictions in March.   …