Spinning Top gains popularity among children in Japan
News | February 13, 2020 19:11 ISTEvery year in Japan, national championship is held for "Spinning Top" game called "Koma".
Every year in Japan, national championship is held for "Spinning Top" game called "Koma".
An unspecified number of Indians were among the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew members on board a cruise ship quarantined off Japan due to diagnosis of coronavirus cases, the Indian Embassy in Tokyo said on Monday.
The mainland death toll rose by 97 to 908 in the 24 hours through midnight Sunday and 3,062 new cases were reported.
Coronavirus cases in China has once again reported rise after a sharp decline the previous day, while the number of deaths grow by 97 to 908, with at least two more outside the country.
Japan on Friday reported 41 new cases of a virus on a cruise ship that’s been quarantined in Yokohama harbor while the death toll in mainland China rose to 636, including a doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the disease threat.
Japanese authorities were awaiting tests results on Tuesday for passengers aboard a cruise ship that arrived at a port in Yokohama and was immediately quarantined after a passenger was found to have been infected with the deadly novel coronavirus.
The patient said he didn't visit Wuhan's fish and seafood market, where the outbreak is thought to have originated, but he may have been in contact with some of the affected patients.
Nissan’s fugitive ex-boss, Carlos Ghosn, on Wednesday described his arrest in Japan, from which he escaped last month, as a plot against him and his detention conditions as a “travesty” against human rights.
Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who fled to Lebanon this week, and is the subject named on an active Interpol arrest warrant, emailed a statement yeaterday accusing the Japanese justice system of being "rigged," and denying he had "fled justice" -- maintaining he was a victim of a conspiracy and "political persecution."
In what is being seen as the escape that El Chapo would envy, ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled Japan in a musical box. Lebanese television station MTV reports that Ghosn fled after a band of musicians entered his home on the pretext of providing entertainment during a dinner party. Ghosn hid himself inside one of the musical boxes before leaving Japan from a local airport.
Nissan’s former Chairman Carlos Ghosn has escaped to Lebanon amid financial misconduct allegations during his tenure leading the automaker, akin to India's liquor baron Vijay Mallya.
The Youth Olympic Games is an international sporting event for athletes aged 14 to 18.
In order to reduce environmental pollution and to improve the air quality, Miyawaki forests will be grown in the city, said S.P. Velumani, Minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal for Bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programme between the Indian Patent Office and patent offices of other interested countries.
Abe, who in principle could remain in power until his third and final term as LDP party leader ends in September 2021, said he feels "great responsibility" for the rest of his tenure.
As Francis makes the first papal visit to Japan in 38 years, he will likely look to the past by honoring the doggedness of those so-called Hidden Christians, while also laying out his vision for a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
The two leaders held a meeting on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit here during which China’s fast expanding military and economic expansionism in the Indo-Pacific region figured prominently among several other key issues, officials said
The historic Shuri Castle was destroyed after a major fire broke out in Japan's southern island of Okinawa, destroying the UNESCO World Heritage site. The fire in Naha, the prefectural capital of Okinawa, started from the castle's main structure and quickly spread to other buildings. Three large halls and four other structures burned down in the fire.
The 50-carat diamond vanished Thursday from a convention centre in Yokohama where an international jewellery exhibition was being held.
It is a Japanese tradition to give condolence money, or "incense money", to grieving families at funerals.
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