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TOKYO (Reuters) - After pulling out of last week’s Italian Open due to injury, World number one Naomi Osaka admitted she has had a “rocky” claycourt season heading into the French Open. ... ( read original story ...)

Osaka, the daughter of a Haitian father and Japanese ... In Japan, her coy personality and breezy news conferences have made her into a media darling. 'Naomi-speak' was among the most searched ... ( read original story ...)

New Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Harvard-educated ... chairman of the lower house foreign affairs committee, told a Reuters News seminar this week. “I don’t think (demands) will be as harsh ... ( read original story ...)

1. Yokohama not so hot as an Olympic dry run: The Japanese city lies less than a 40km bike leg from Tokyo and its course profile – essentially pan-flat – resembles what triathletes can expect at next ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Japanese exports fell for a fifth straight month in April, offering the latest sign that China’s slowdown and its trade conflict with the U.S. are continuing to weigh on Japan’s economy ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor’s Japan Taxi, born in a government committee and designed to be an all-things-to-all-people cab, has become a high-priced icon of Tokyo’s budget-busting 2020 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese exports contracted for the fifth month in April due to a slump in shipments of chip-making equipment to China, underlining the growing threat to the world's third ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s foreign minister has issued a request to the English-speaking world: call our prime minister Abe Shinzo, not Shinzo Abe. “The new Reiwa era was ushered in and we are hosting the Group of 20 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's trade surplus dropped by around 90 percent in April, official data showed Wednesday, with exports affected by a slowdown in China's economy as it wages a trade war with Washington. Meanwhile, ... ( read original story ...)

“The CCA has and will continue to advocate for free and open trade,” said CCA president David Haywood-Farmer, in a CCA news release about the widened trade access. ” We were pleased to see the access ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese House of Representatives has passed new crypto regulation in the upper house of the National Diet, local news agency Nikkei reports on May 21. The lower house has reportedly moved ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s foreign minister has said he will issued a request to foreign media: Call our prime minister Abe Shinzo, not Shinzo Abe. “The new Reiwa era was ushered in, and we are hosting the Group of 20 ... ( read original story ...)

A Tokyo police smartphone app to scare off molesters has become a smash hit in Japan, where women have long run the gauntlet of groping on packed rush-hour trains. Victims of groping can activate the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — The heads of some international sports federations complained this month that Tokyo Olympic organizers were cutting too deeply to save money. One said the cost reductions could make venues ... ( read original story ...)

If the AIBA's Olympic suspension is maintained the IOC has said it will step in to ensure the sport appears in Tokyo. Download The Times of India News App for Latest Sports News. Make sense of the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo (AFP) - Tokyo 2020 can make further reductions to its budget, a top Olympic official said Tuesday, despite some sports associations voicing concerns that cost-cutting could harm the running of ... ( read original story ...)