Executive committee members, including lawyer Tadashi Inomata, left, appeal to people to make

as known as The Haruki Murakami Library at Waseda University on Sept.... Tadashi Yanai, second

This photo taken on June 26, 2021, shows Tadashi Kimura, center, executive board chairperson of the

Osaka Castle is seen in the city of Osaka from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter, on Aug.... The Osaka Prefectural Government reported 1, 828 coronavirus infections, exceeding the prefecture's record 1, 654 cases set two days earlier.... It is the fourth straight day for Osaka Prefecture to report infection figures higher than 1, 000....

This aerial photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows Osaka Castle and high-rise buildings in the city of Osaka.... According to the prefectural government, the man checked in at the hotel in Osaka's Kita Ward on the evening of June 19, and was staying in his room on the sixth floor.... Though a nurse called him on the morning of June 22 for health management, he did not pick up the phone....

It is the financial centre of the USA and is home to the world’s two largest stock exchanges by market cap( the NYSE and the Nasdaq).... Most of the world’s top tech companies are based in the Bay Area, including Apple, Facebook( Meta), Google, HP, Netflix, Uber and Zoom.In 2000, London was the top city in the world for millionaires but has since slipped down the list.... It is still home to some of the world’s most exclusive residential suburbs, including Chelsea, Hampstead, Mayfair and Regen

A building that houses the Japanese Communist Party's Central Committee is seen in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.... The party also intends to halt the reduction, elimination and consolidation of public hospitals and increase the numbers of public health centers and their employees.... As for diplomatic policies, the party promised to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons....

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano( Mainichi) TOKYO--Japan's opposition parties are criticizing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party( LDP) for launching a leadership contest while at the same time forgoing an extraordinary Diet session to debate coronavirus pandemic measures.... 17, the same day that the LDP's presidential campaign began.... Edano has been referring to the electoral contests to decide the heads of the CDP and LDP as" semifinals," with the coming House o

This June 2, 2021 photo shows the interior of a new outlet of Japanese casual clothing chain Uniqlo in Tokyo's Asakusa area.... The net profit surged 88.0 percent from a year earlier to 169.85 billion yen($ 1.50 billion), helped by fewer coronavirus infections and eased social restrictions in China as well as North American and European countries.... It is also aiming to expand sales in e-commerce....

Rikako Ikee celebrates after she and her teammates set a new Japanese record in the women's 200-meter relay, at Sagamihara Green Pool in Sagamihara's Chuo Ward on July 4, 2021.... The record of 1: 39.67 was set during an event in the city of Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.... It was the second day in a row for her and her teammates to mark a new Japanese record....