Keegan Messing (Canada), 31, will have a special feeling about the Figure Skating World Championships (Saitama Super Arena), which will start on March 22.
The final episode of TBS Tuesday drama "Yugure ni, Te wo Tsunagu" (Every Tuesday from 10:00 p.m.), starring actress Suzu Hirose and featuring Ren Nagase of King & Prince, will be aired on March 21.
Several policymakers at a Bank of Japan meeting earlier this month called for continuing current monetary-easing measures to achieve the 2-percent inflation target.
On January 19, it was learned that actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's (89) autobiographical story "Totto-chan at the Window" will be made into an animated film, which is scheduled to be released this winter.
Professional skater Yuzuru Hanyu (28), who won his second consecutive Olympic gold medal in figure skating, and pitcher Shohei Otani (28, Angels), who will play a central role in the 5th WBC, have been attracting a lot of attention for their "collaboration.
A high-ranking South Korean government official has said his country's President Yoon Suk-yeol has indicated that Japan had apologized enough for its colonial past.