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No Plan B: Japans sponsors shelve ads as mood sours over Tokyo Olympics Toggle share menu Advertisement No Plan B: Japans sponsors shelve ads as mood sours over Tokyo Olympics The Olympic rings are illuminated in front of the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on Jan 22, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Kim Kyung-hoon) 29 Jan 2021 04:00PM (Updated: 29 Jan 2021 04:22PM) Share this content Bookmark TOKYO: Japans Olympic sponsors are scaling back advertising campaigns and ...

6 Min Read TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Olympic sponsors are scaling back advertising campaigns and delaying marketing events for this year’s Summer Games, concerned that public sentiment toward the event is souring amid a fresh wave of COVID-19. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games that have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, is seen through a traffic sign at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office building in Tokyo, Japan January 22, 2021. RE...

By Syndicated Content By Maki Shiraki, Makiko Yamazaki, Eimi Yamamitsu and Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - Japans Olympic sponsors are scaling back advertising campaigns and delaying marketing events for this years Summer Games, concerned that public sentiment toward the event is souring amid a fresh wave of COVID-19. Sponsors also worry that organisers have not told them what contingency plans there are in case the pandemic derails the Games again this year. That uncertainty over the...

Updated Jan 06, 2021 | 13:54 IST The expecting mother, 23-year-old Chelsea Furnival, said she and her partner Adrian Witt couldnt stop laughing the moment they saw the 4D image of their baby girl on January 2. Unborn baby shows her middle finger during scan&nbsp Ultrasound scans of unborn babies often produce interesting and bizarre images. While the visuals are an instant source of joy for an expecting mother and her husband, some sonogram images have gone viral on socia...

 February The year was already off to a terrible start with many global natural disasters, tragedies, deaths, and regional conflicts in January. Bushfires were raging across Australia, a US drone hit Baghdad International Airport and took down the Iranian major general, a Ukranian plane was downed killing 176 people, and Kobe Bryants tragic death are some of the tragic headlines in this first month. COVID-19 had already spread in 25 countries, mostly in Asia, killing at least 213 people. The W...

Dec 24, 2020 Japan rang in 2020 with dreams of Olympic glory. Not so much the athletic kind, though there was that too, but more in terms of branding. It was a chance to reaffirm the country’s position as a player on the global pop culture stage. Looking at the mainstream successes won by South Korea — pop group BTS, the film “Parasite” — surely there would be room for another player from Asia on the global pop culture stage. By late February, though, Japan’s entertainment-...

Photofest; Al Pereira/Getty Images The 300,000 Americans who have died from the disease this year included actors, art directors, animators and playwrights — even an iconic movie villain. Rachel Bloom, Lee Daniels, Nathan Lane, John Mulaney and others celebrate the lives of their friends and collaborators. Broadway Playwright Terrence  McNally A chat from the afterlife with the gifted dramatist leaves an actor feeling lucky to have ever known him By Nathan Lane So I think I may have chatt...