Apr 17, 2021
Regardless of what has gone on outside the pool, Daiya Seto has remained one of swimming’s top stars and an athlete capable of representing Japan at the highest level.
Seto was embroiled in controversy last year when news of his extramarital affairs were made public and has been apologetic at almost every turn since returning to competition in February.
Despite everything that’s happened recently, nothing has changed for Seto in the pool. As he proved during last week’s national championships, he can still swim as well as anyone.
Seto captured three medals at Tokyo Aquatics Centre, winning gold in the men’s 200- and 400-meter individual medleys (IM) and taking silver in the 200 butterfly. The 26-year-old will compete in those disciplines at the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan-based ANA Holdings, parent of All Nippon Airways, and Germany-based Wingcopter have begun trials using unmanned electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) fixed-wing aircraft in Japan and intend to develop a delivery network for pharmaceutical and consumer products. ANA and Wingcopter conducted the first test flights in late March between Fukuejima and Hisakajima in Nagasaki […]
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By Greg Waldron2021-04-15T06:37:00+01:00
The coronavirus pandemic has been tough on Pratt & Whitney’s commercial engine business in the Asia-Pacific, and the company’s sales leader for the region says the outlook hinges on vaccines.
P&W’s airline customers in the Asia-Pacific have had an extremely challenging 2020 owing to Covid-19, particularly carriers with big international networks.
The Eagle Services shop floor in Singapore. The company is a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney and SIA Engineering
“[Covid-19] affected their operations and affected maintenance plans, it affected us because we generate revenue when our customers fly,” says Mary Ellen Jones, vice president Asia-Pacific sales at P&W.
Tokyo Japan s domestic jet fuel demand is set to mark a year-on-year recovery during the Golden Week national holidays despite the country s latest COVID-19 priority measures on populous and tourist popular prefectures but will remain below the pre-pandemic level in 2019.
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Japan on April 12 introduced the priority measures in Tokyo until May 11 and in Kyoto and Okinawa until May 5 after having already applied April 5 to Osaka, Hyogo and Miyagi prefectures until May 5 following a rise in new COVID-19 infection cases.
The latest measures came just weeks after Japan lifted the state of emergency measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic on March 21. Roughly 27% of Japan s total population is under the latest priority measures. The priority measures could be extended to other prefectures in coming days amid rising COVID-19 and its variant cas