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There are plenty of ways to spend warm, sunny days in Tokyo, like exploring the city’s coolest neighbourhoods or best public art installations. But there are also days when it’s enough to just enjoy a casual stroll through the park to unwind and escape ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu says he will have talks with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Tokyo next week. Hamada said on Friday that the meeting will take place on June 1. He said the two defense chiefs will discuss concrete measures to ... ( read original story ...)

Overall prices in the Japanese capital remain high as people continue to pay more for food and some services. Tokyo's consumer price index is released ahead of figures for all of Japan. It is considered to be a leading indicator of inflation nationwide. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday, helped by a surge in US tech shares and a cheap yen against the dollar. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 0.29 percent, or 89.98 points, at 30,891.11 in early trade, ( read original story ...)

ISHIYA's 'Shiroi Koibito' cookies are by far one of the most popular souvenirs one could find in Hokkaido. But despite being famous for Shiroi Koibito, ISHIYA boasts several other excellent ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will place additional sanctions on Russia after the Group of Seven (G7) summit the country hosted last week agreed to step up measures to punish Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Friday. ( read original story ...)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. raised 570 billion yen ($4 billion) worth of debt in what is Japan’s biggest yen bond deal this year. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital slowed in May but a key index stripping away the effect of fuel hit a four-decade high, underscoring broadening price pressure that may keep ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Inflation in Tokyo slowed, supporting the Bank of Japan’s view that prices will likely slow toward the autumn, although the high levels will likely continue to drag on household ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 26 (Reuters) - Core consumer prices in Japan's capital, Tokyo, rose 3.2% in May from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. The increase in the core consumer price index (CPI), ... ( read original story ...)

Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital, Tokyo, rose 3.2% in May from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, slowing from the previous month's increase but remaining well above the central bank's 2% target. ( read original story ...)

Japan ETFs saw significant inflows in the past month after the legendary billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that Berkshire Hathaway owns more stocks ( read original story ...)

Hello and welcome to Energy 360, the podcast from the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at CSIS. I'm your host, Lisa Hyland. This week, we look at the G7 to highlight the energy and climate ... ( read original story ...)

Three people, including two police officers, have been killed in a small town in the mountains of Japan, a rare attack in a country known for its low level of ( read original story ...)

A shipwreck off the coast of Okinawa, Japan has been identified as that of SS Mannert L. Abele, a U.S. Navy destroyer that was sunk by a "human-guided kamikaze bomb" during World War II, authorities said Thursday. ( read original story ...)

And with Tokyo hoping to take a free ride on Washington's strategy to realize the country's full militarization, this is being facilitated by Japan. Although Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ... ( read original story ...)