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Tokyo stocks fell Tuesday morning as a cautious mood took hold following the Nikkei index's recent run-up to 33-year highs, prompting ... ( read original story ...)

China’s commerce minister has urged Japan to end its newly announced curbs on exports of chipmaking equipment, saying it would hurt economic and trade relations between the two countries. ( read original story ...)

Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest insurer by market value, is withdrawing from the Net Zero Insurance Alliance, the latest in a wave of defections from the world’s biggest climate alliance for insurers. ( read original story ...)

Toyota Motor Corp's global sales rose by nearly 5% in April from a year earlier, boosted by stronger demand for hybrids and gasoline-powered cars in Japan and China. ( read original story ...)

Fumio Kishida criticises actions of eldest son, Shotaro, after photos show him lying on the stairs and posing at a press conference podium ( read original story ...)

Japan's Topix (Tokyo Price Index) has marked new peaks in the past two weeks, seeing its highest level since July 1990 on Monday. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his son is resigning as his executive policy secretary to take responsibility for using the prime minister’s residence for a private party at which the merrymaking was exposed in magazine photos that triggered public outrage. ( read original story ...)

Etihad Airways has unveiled plans to launch flights between Abu Dhabi and Osaka, Japan. The airline will operate the route with five flights per week using Boeing 787-9 aircraft, beginning Oct 1. The ... ( read original story ...)

Veteran actor Koji Yakusho won the Best Actor prize at the Cannes International Film Festival on Saturday. The 67-year-old Japanese star received the award for his performance as a Tokyo toilet cleaner in "Perfect Days, ( read original story ...)

Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express the city’s traditional eating and drinking culture. ( read original story ...)

L ocated at Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO), 22 miles south of Nagoya in central Japan, is a shopping center and theme park containing the first-ever Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The decision to ... ( read original story ...)

Officials from Be Forward said that they had taken the initiative to pay all the claimants as they track the agents-turned-fraudsters ... ( read original story ...)

After opening on April 28 in Japan, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has hit the JPY10 billion ($71 million) milestone in just 31 days – the quickest ever by a non-Japanese animation in ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's son will resign as his aide, the premier said on Monday, after photos of the son and other relatives apparently pretending to hold a news conference at the official residence sparked an uproar. ( read original story ...)

An International Atomic Energy Agency team has arrived in Tokyo for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he would fire his son, who is working as his secretary, after a scandal over a party held at his official residence in late 2022. ( read original story ...)