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Kept out of venues, superfan brings Games home July 23 2021 11:57 PM RELATED STORIES Olympic super-fan Kyoko Ishikawa, who has attended every Summer Olympics in the past 30 years, expresses her gratitude as Blue Impulse, Japanق€™s Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) aerobatic team, performs a display to form the Olympic rings in the skies over Tokyo yesterday. (AFP) Text Size: AFP/ Tokyo A Tokyo Olympics spectator ban means superfan Kyoko Ishikawa is missing her first Summer Games since 1992...

Also on this day in 2020, protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody, broke out for a third straight night. See more

A nurse shaves a COVID-19 patient in a hospital room in Miyoshi, Saitama Prefecture, on Dec. 24, 2020. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Nurses in the Tokyo metropolitan area have long been under stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the recent surge in deaths has exacerbated the strain and spread a sense of guilt among them. The novel coronavirus is something they had never dealt with before, and they have had to alter their usual treatments and words of comfort. Now, they must deal with an abnorm...

news Japans vaccine czar Taro Kono called small man for Twitter block spree The Mainichi © The Mainichi Administrative reform minister Taro Kono snaps a photo with his smartphone at an Oct. 9, 2020 Cabinet meeting at the prime ministers office in Tokyo. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO -- Administrative reform minister Taro Kono has traded on his immense Twitter following -- about 2.24 million at the time of writing -- to land a promotion to head Japans coronavirus vaccination e...

Japans vaccine czar Taro Kono called small man for Twitter block spree February 6, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) Administrative reform minister Taro Kono snaps a photo with his smartphone at an Oct. 9, 2020 Cabinet meeting at the prime ministers office in Tokyo. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO -- Administrative reform minister Taro Kono has traded on his immense Twitter following -- about 2.24 million at the time of writing -- to land a promotion to head Japans coronavirus vaccination effort. However...