One of the Osaka meeting’s more encouraging results ... will help stabilize and stimulate digital trade. This is welcome news. Global trade plays a vitally important role in maintaining ... ( read original story ...)
China hosts Japan, S. Korea ministers in bid to smooth row
“We support Japan and South Korea in taking the chance of the trilateral foreign ministers meeting to have their bilateral talks,” Wang said at a news conference following morning talks. “We hope both ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese princess to visit P.E.I. to celebrate Japan-Canada relations
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Princess Takamado of Japan will visit Prince Edward Island next week as part of the official events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and ... ( read original story ...)
24 hours in Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo, the gateway to northern Japan, may not have quite the same neon-lit hustle and bustle of Tokyo or Osaka, but its scenic surroundings, laid-back pace and distinctive cuisine make it a worthy ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese princess to visit Prince Edward Island to celebrate Japan-Canada relations
CHARLOTTETOWN—Princess Takamado of Japan will visit Prince Edward Island next week as part of the official events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Canada. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s $1.5 Trillion Manager Warns of Global Investing Losses
Japan’s $1.5 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund lost money in equities, fixed-income and currency positions over the last three months, Mizuno said Tuesday in Sacramento, California. ( read original story ...)
Fukushima Radiation Becomes Latest Japan-South Korea Sore Point
(Bloomberg) -- Radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is becoming the latest source of tension between Japan and South Korea, potentially undercutting Tokyo’s effort to promote the 2020 ... ( read original story ...)
NOCs confident Tokyo 2020 can overcome heat, water quality issues
TOKYO (Reuters) - Searing heat and water quality issues have dogged Tokyo 2020 organizers in recent weeks but delegates to a Chef de Mission seminar on Tuesday said they are confident their hosts ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama plans to go all in on landing a casino resort in city
Yokohama officials are planning to spin the wheel in hopes of landing one of the three "integrated resort" (IR) locations in Japan that will include a casino, according to sources related to the ... ( read original story ...)
Analysis: History complicates Seoul-Tokyo trade dispute
Tokyo-Seoul standoff decades in the making, writes Kim Tong-hyung and Yuri Kageyama. A runaway train. Crashing billiard balls. A compound fracture. Journalists and academics in Seoul have been running ... ( read original story ...)
Japan approves further exports of high-tech material to South Korea: sources
SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipments of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, two people familiar with the matter said on ... ( read original story ...)
Restaurateur, 86: Free lunch if you can put me down in arm wrestling
NAGOYA--Beat an 86-year-old man in arm wrestling and win a free lunch? Many have tried to their regret to put Eiji Okubo down at his restaurant here in the city’s Chikusa Ward. But most have been left ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc backs Abe’s tough trade stance vs South Korea amid row: Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies broadly support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tough trade stance against South Korea, a Reuters poll found. Three-quarters of companies in the monthly Reuters ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Japan again approved shipment of photoresists to South Korea -Yonhap News
SEOUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipment of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, Yonhap News Agency reported late on Monday, ... ( read original story ...)
How History Can Actually Solve the South Korea-Japan Crisis
Korea-Japan relations, already strained by South Korean Supreme Court rulings last fall ordering Japanese companies to compensate World War II victims of forced labor, began breaking down across new ... ( read original story ...)
Japan shrine for war dead vandalized by man claiming to be Chinese
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police on Monday arrested a man claiming to be Chinese for throwing a black ink-like liquid on a curtain at one of the buildings of Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for war ... ( read original story ...)