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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Japanese supply run to the International Space Station has been delayed again. The countdown was halted Saturday local time in Japan, with only a few hours remaining before l... ( read original story ...)

SAO PAULO – Members of the International Whaling Commission defeated a Japanese proposal to reinstate commercial whaling at a meeting in Brazil on Friday. The commission suspended commercial whaling i... ( read original story ...)

but now people there seem to enjoy pop and rock from Japanese, South Korean and Chinese artists. "Of course I had a dream ... we wanted to be the biggest rock stars in the world but 25 years ago they ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese city of Sapporo is expected to stop pursuing the 2026 Winter Olympics, leaving four possible candidates as the IOC struggles to find hosts — particularly for the Winter Games ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Naomi Osaka said on Thursday Serena Williams ... t even know what I’m expected to feel,” she told a news conference in Yokohama ahead of the Pan Pacific tournament ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Naomi Osaka’s victory in the U.S. Open has added her to a growing list of athletes, Nobel Prize winners, and beauty pageant contestants who have raised the issue of what it means to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose a proposal to adopt daylight savings time ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, citing the time and effort to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is vying for his third re-election as the ruling party leader next week, extending his stay in power to work on his long-cherished ambition -- to revise his ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan’s Nissan Motor Co has signed U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka as its next brand ambassador, the automaker said on Thursday, tapping the tennis star’s youth ... ( read original story ...)

but now people there seem to enjoy pop and rock from Japanese, Korean and Chinese artists. Yoshiki, who uses one name, was speaking Thursday at a news conference in Tokyo to promote what will be the b... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka's victory in the U.S. Open has added her to a growing list of athletes, Nobel Prize winners, and beauty pageant contestants who have raised the issue of what it means to be Japanese. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — As a brass band blared "Anchors Aweigh," Tokyo's governor led Thursday's opening ceremony for the Japanese capital's new fish market and tried to assuage concerns about contamination at the si... ( read original story ...)

HANOI, Vietnam — Japan is gearing up to accept more foreign workers as its own population is on the brink of a steep decline, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Friday. Kono told a World Economic Forum m... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Naomi Osaka's victory in the U.S. Open has added her to a growing list of athletes, Nobel Prize winners, and beauty pageant contestants who have raised the issue of what it means to ... ( read original story ...)

Ryus Noodle Bar, a Japanese ramen eatery that specializes in noodle soups, has been chosen to set up a food stall in the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum in Yokohama. The museum, which calls itself a food-t... ( read original story ...)

FIVE days after her historic US Open victory, Naomi Osaka has spoken about what really went down on the podium between the 20-year-old and her childhood idol, Serena Williams. Osaka became the first-e... ( read original story ...)