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PV Expo Tokyo 2024, Japan's main solar industry event, has concluded with record numbers, innovative products, and new trends. Storage auctions and new rules for power purchase agreements (PPAs) are ... ( read original story ...)

Only 1,100 lucky audience members were there to hear the yet-to-be published short story “Kaho,” read aloud by bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami himself. ( read original story ...)

Travelers from JFK would previously have had to fly All Nippon Airways (ANA) or Japan Airlines, or connect through another city to reach Tokyo.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya has a new high-rise hotel with some of the best sweeping views in the city. Without a doubt, it will delight travelers with money to burn on its larger rooms and suites — while confounding ... ( read original story ...)

Not a single Tokyo district managed to crack the top two "desirable places to live" in the national capital region survey for 2024, run by Re･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

There’s no better place to see them in than a park called Harvest Hill in Minami Ward, Sakai City, just south of Osaka, where you can find over 500,000 of the yellow blossoms. As Osaka Prefecture’s ... ( read original story ...)

As a Japanese moon lander again went dormant, controllers bid farewell. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei stock index made gains during trading Friday, continuing its climb into record territory and closing the week just shy of the 40,000 mark. The Nikkei gained 744.63 points or 1.9% Friday ... ( read original story ...)

Average prices for new apartments in Japan’s capital of Tokyo hit a record high last year, with the average price of new apartments surpassing ¥100mn ($665,000) for the first time. Over the past five ... ( read original story ...)

While honoring the 82nd anniversary of the Doolittle Raiders April 18, 1942 attack on Tokyo, let’s remember Gowanda Raider Joseph W. Manske. Just 34 months before the mission that stunned Japan’s ... ( read original story ...)

Two former Cabinet ministers belonging to Japan’s governing party’s key faction behind a major corruption scandal that has rocked the government renewed denial they had any role in running slush funds ... ( read original story ...)

It goes down in the Guinness World Records™ as the "largest architectural projection-mapped display (permanent)"! TOKYO, March 01, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To create the newest attraction to brighten ... ( read original story ...)

A theme park claiming to be the world's first to offer exclusively immersive experiences opened to the public Friday in Tokyo's popul ... ( read original story ...)

The inaugural proceedings using this platform took place at the Osaka High Court, where lawyers joined remotely through a digital interface. The system was introduced following a 2022 amendment to the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A display capable of turning spoken words into text in 12 languages plus translate has been installed at a subway station here to make it easier for inbound tourists and passengers with ... ( read original story ...)

The 38-year-old teacher had his pay temporarily docked after putting the student in a headlock and punching him twice in the head, officials said. ( read original story ...)