Jun 6, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has left sporting organizers scrambling over the last year to host competitions so that athletes have opportunities to compete and prepare for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
While Tokyo 2020 organizers have managed a limited number of para test events ahead of the games, the Japan Blind Football Association became one of the first para sport organizers to hold an international tournament last week in Tokyo.
The capital hosted the IBSA Blind Football World Grand Prix in a bubble environment, enacting strict protocols to ensure the safety for the participating teams amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The tournament, inaugurated in 2018 to raise blind soccer’s visibility ahead of the Tokyo Paralympics, was canceled last year due to the pandemic. But organizers resumed it this year, limiting athletes and officials between their hotels and the competition venue throughout the event.
May 8, 2021
Believing that the lens of a camera can cut through to a more authentic reality than is apparent to the human eye at the time, a Japanese photographer has created a pictorial record of the current pandemic’s impact on Tokyo.
It comes after a similar endeavor to chronicle the devastation that followed in the wake of the triple disaster that hit northeastern Japan in 2011.
Takeshi Yamagishi, who has long been fascinated by what he sees as the power struggle between civilization and nature, believes that humanity might be at a crossroads now, ready to reconsider this most crucial relationship.
Police transport Saki Sudo in a van on April 29 in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture. (Takaharu Yagi)
A 25-year-old woman accused of murdering her elderly wealthy husband by force-feeding him stimulant drugs had contacted a suspected dope dealer by smartphone before the death, according to investigative sources.
Wakayama prefectural police sent the suspect, Saki Sudo, who lives in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, to the Wakayama District Public Prosecutors Office on April 29 on suspicion of murder and violating the Stimulants Control Law.
A van carrying Sudo left Tanabe Police Station in Wakayama Prefecture at around 11 a.m. She sat in the back seat with her head down.
He was notorious for publishing an autobiography titled
Don Juan of Kishu: The Man Who Gave 3 Billion Yen to 4000 Beautiful Women in 2016. Three billion yen is £19.7m.
Nozaki was found dead at his home in Wakayama Prefecture, Tokyo, and found traces of an illegal stimulant drug in his body but no needle marks, leading them to believe it was a case of poisoning.
Police have also said Ms Sudo was alone with Nozaki before his death and had also ruled out suicide.
Soon after his death, the Nozaki murder case gained widespread attention.
The local government had earlier said Nozaki had mentioned in his will that he would donate all of his property, worth around 1.3 billion yen (£8.6m), to the city.