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Samsung Electronics, the world’s top chipmaker by revenue, is reportedly considering building an additional research and development facility in Japan amid a thaw in Seoul-Tokyo relations. Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Rakuten Group Inc is finalising plans to raise about $2.2 billion by issuing new shares, according to two people, in the e-commerce company's latest move to shore up its ... ( read original story ...)

Aichi Prefectural Police on May 14 arrested a teen on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in death and injury after a car he allegedly ... ( read original story ...)

A man who allegedly slashed his mother on the neck with a kitchen knife has been arrested here, police said.Hiroyuki Kotani, 54, was arrested･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government and the central bank on Monday held a fresh round of discussions on the role each should play in achieving sustained wage hikes aimed at eliminating the risk of the country ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's wholesale prices rose 5.8% in April from a year earlier, but the pace slowed for the fourth straight month, data showed on Monday, suggesting that consumer inflation will begin to moderate as ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s top three banks are expected to forecast their highest profits in years, driven by a pickup in client activities and subdued bad loan costs. ( read original story ...)

The greatly anticipated Persona 6 has a few avenues it can take in regard to setting, though working from Persona 5's Tokyo could prove advantageous. ( read original story ...)

Japan defeated France in the mixed team event at the world judo championships on Sunday to finish the tournament on top of the medals table with six golds.As well as their six golds, Japan collected ... ( read original story ...)

It looked, according to those who witnessed the scene in Tokyo’s expensive Ginza district, like a sequence from an action film. For ten minutes in broad dayligh ... ( read original story ...)

ALBAWABA - Japan is in talks to open Asia’s first  NATO liaison office in Tokyo, which supports the security alliance’s efforts against the Russian inva ... ( read original story ...)

World leaders are expected to make their strongest pledges to tackle dementia for 10 years at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, as degenerative brain diseases impose a growing burden on the global economy ... ( read original story ...)

Kashima Antlers beat fellow founding member Nagoya Grampus 2-0 on Sunday as the J-League celebrated its 30th anniversary with a specially arranged match at Tokyo's National Stadium. Yuma Suzuki and ... ( read original story ...)

Seoul and Tokyo are struggling to agree on the specifics for the planned Korean inspection of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. According to officials, Sunday, the two countries were still in ... ( read original story ...)

Chinas bid for dominance in East Asia appears to have achieved what years of US efforts could not ndash prompt a reconciliation be ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s Pride Parade is about to begin and Rahm Emanuel, the American ambassador to Japan who’s supposed to be kicking off the march, is buried somewhere inside the crowd. LGBTQ rights activists are ... ( read original story ...)