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2021-07-23 / 最終更新日 : 2022-09-13 Aki@英語ニューススポーツ

五輪式典の演出担当が解任【Olympic ceremony director fired】

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee dismissed the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday, a day before the show, over a Holocaust joke he made in a comedy skit in 1998. The move came after he got flamed on social media.

2021-07-16 / 最終更新日 : 2022-09-13 Aki@英語ニュース政治

首相が酒類販売の方針に関して謝罪【Prime Minister apologizes for alcohol sales policy】

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologized on Wednesday for his administration’s request to ask drinks wholesalers to stop supplying liquor to restaurants and bars that defied the ban on serving alcohol under the COVID-19 emergency state.

2021-07-02 / 最終更新日 : 2022-09-13 Aki@英語ニュース事件事故

飲酒運転で学童二人が死亡【Drunk driver kills two schoolchildren】

A drunk driver crashed into a group of schoolchildren, killing two boys and injuring three others in a school zone near Tokyo on Monday. Police arrested the man on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in death and injury.