In Promoting His City for 2020 Games, Tokyo’s Bid Chairman Tweaks Others With less than five months to go before the International Olympic Committee chooses a city to host the 2020 Summer Games, the three remaining bidders — Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo — are increasing their efforts to win over delegates and the public. The Olympic committee’s rules prohibit bid committee members from directly crit
Nick D’Aloisio, 17, of Britain, developed his news-reading app when he was only 15.Credit...Nadine Rupp/Getty Images One of Yahoo’s newest employees is a 17-year-old high school student in Britain. As of Monday, he is one of its richest, too. That student, Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to the company on Mo
An advertisement for Olympus in Tokyo. Japanese officials said at least $4.9 billion in Olympus funds were missing.Credit...Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News Editors’ Note, Aug. 3, 2021: This article, relying on statements made in a police memo, includes errors. It refers incorrectly to payments being probed by Japanese police. While some of the payments identified in the police memo were made by Nob
Kei Igawa keeps a strict exercise regimen in addition to his workouts with the team. He is often already doing sprints in the outfield or running stadium steps when his teammates arrive.Credit...Benjamin Norman for The New York Times TRENTON — In the middle of a bright Manhattan summer afternoon, the Yankees’ $46 million pitcher steps from his fashionable East Side apartment building and slips int
In Shika, Japan, a nuclear plant's visitor hall promotes nuclear power with “Alice in Wonderland” characters.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times SHIKA, Japan — Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.” “It’s terrible, just terrible,” t
This week marks a significant transition for The New York Times as we introduce digital subscriptions. It’s an important step that we hope you will see as an investment in The Times, one that will strengthen our ability to provide high-quality journalism to readers around the world and on any platform. The change will primarily affect those who are heavy consumers of the content on our Web site an
Yokohama, Japan I SET out from my home in the port city of Yokohama early in the afternoon last Friday, and shortly before 3 p.m. I checked into my hotel in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo. I usually spend three or four days a week there to write, gather material and take care of other business. The earthquake hit just as I entered my room. Thinking I might end up trapped beneath rubble, I gra
Japanese Scramble to Avert Meltdowns as Nuclear Crisis Deepens After Quake Officials checked for signs of radiation on children from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama.Credit...Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters TOKYO — Japanese officials struggled on Sunday to contain a widening nuclear crisis in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, saying they presumed t
The Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., where Bernard L. Madoff, convicted in a Ponzi scheme, is imprisoned.Credit...Jim R. Bounds/Bloomberg News BUTNER, N.C. — Bernard L. Madoff said he never thought the collapse of his Ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction that has befallen his family. In his first interview for publication since his arrest in December 2008, Mr. Madoff — loo
CAIRO Circulating through the streets of Cairo Friday night, with families packed into cars honking their horns in celebration and everyone strolling to Tahrir Square, I heard so many celebratory chants, but none more accurate and powerful in its simplicity than this one: “The people of Egypt made the regime step down.’’ The overwhelming sense of personal empowerment here, by a people so long kept
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