Japanese judoka Wakana Koga, second from left, poses with her women's 48kg gold medal on the podium at the Paris Grand Slam held at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris on Oct.... Wakana Koga, who took the women's 48-kilogram silver at the world championships in June, defeated France's Melanie Legoux Clement by ippon in the final of her weight class for Japan's first gold in the 50th edition of the International Judo Federation event.... In the men's 66kg final, 19-year-old Ryoma Tanaka came out on

It contains the company's wish to serve as a" compass for understanding and supporting one another, at a time when society is said to have become increasingly divided," in the words of The Mainichi Newspapers President Masahiro Maruyama.... This is expressed in its slogan," Weaving society together through words" coined ahead of the 150th anniversary of the newspaper's launch, which it will mark in February 2022.... It was shot by Keisuke Imamura, who also lensed Japanese singer-songwriter Ken

CHIBA, Japan--Hatsune Miku has always been 16 years old and worn long aqua ponytails.... She is Japan's most famous Vocaloid — a computer-synthesized singing voice software that, in her case, comes with a virtual avatar.... 31, 2007, release with events including a virtual exhibition and songwriting to showcase her standard high-pitched, cutesy voice....

TOKYO — In 2018, when the power company Hope Energy entered Japan’s new retail electricity market, it thought it had a surefire strategy.... Hope Energy could not honor its price pledges, and it, along with more than 30 other electricity retailers in Japan, went out of business.... Customers scrambled for new providers. Now, the world’s third-largest economy is again confronting the fragility of its energy system....