The 32-year-old former Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United star joined PAOK this January from Real Zaragoza in the Spanish second tier, but had not played since this season's opener in September.... The playmaker won two German Bundesliga titles with Dortmund under Jurgen Klopp in 2011 and 2012 before winning the English Premier League title with Manchester United the following year in Alex Ferguson's final season in charge.... Kagawa, who started his professional career at Cerezo Osaka, w

Shinji Aoba, now 45, had set the studio ablaze by dousing the entrance area of the building with

minister Shinji Inoue separately went to the Shinto shrine in central Tokyo, which honors convicted war

, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others. The Kyoto District Court found 45-year-old Shinji

The newly named twin pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei are seen here on Oct.... The Tokyo Metropolitan Government had called on the public in August to submit suggestions, of which there were ultimately 192, 712.... From those names, a panel of six people including actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, who is the honorary chairperson of the Panda Protection Institute of Japan, deliberated the options, and the metropolitan government made the final choice....

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government building, center, and other high-rise buildings in Shinjuku Ward are seen in this aerial photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in April 2020.... According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the ratio of minors to the total number of COVID-19 cases in the capital has hovered around just over 10% since July, and there have been no signs of a decrease even during the summer vacation period.... Cases of clusters involving children have also been confir

Yuriko Koike is seen attending a COVID-19 monitoring meeting via online, in this photo taken at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government office on July 1, 2021.... They presented their view at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's COVID-19 monitoring meeting on July 1.... According to the metropolitan government, the latest seven-day average of new infections as of June 30 was 502.7, roughly 1.2 times that of the previous week....

Japan's Daiki Hashimoto celebrates after performing in the horizontal bar final of the men's artistic gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Olympics, at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on Aug.... The 19-year-old Hashimoto had entered the final with the top qualifying score.... It was the first time since 2004 for a Japanese gymnast to win an Olympic medal in the event, when Isao Yoneda claimed the horizontal bar bronze at the Athens Games....

Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters( Mainichi/ Makoto Ogawa) TOKYO--The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will set up a large-scale oxygen administration station as there have been more cases where coronavirus patients recuperating at home need to be administered with oxygen.... According to those close to the metro government and other parties, the oxygen administration station is expected to have a large, partitioned room equipped with beds for patients.... Sources say the station will te

The bluefin tuna that was caught off Oma, Aomori Prefecture, and fetched the highest bidding price at the first auction of the year is revealed to the media in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Jan.... Entry to the auction venue was restricted as a measure to prevent coronavirus infections for the second year in a row.... The successful bid for the priciest tuna was made jointly by intermediate wholesaler Yamayuki and restaurant operator Onodera Group, whose eateries include Ginza Onodera....