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TOKYO (Reuters) - After a week of Tokyo 2020 test events dominated by talks of sweltering heat and stifling humidity, it was hockey’s turn to experience it at the newly-built Oi Hockey Stadium ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL (Reuters) - Top diplomats of South Korea and Japan plan to meet their Chinese counterpart in Beijing next week amid a flare-up in tension over trade and history, Seoul’s foreign ministry ... ( read original story ...)

MASON, Ohio — A little more than a week before she is to begin defending her United States Open title, Naomi Osaka injured her left knee and abandoned a quarterfinal at the Western & Southern Open on ... ( read original story ...)

In 2013, Chie Kawabata abducted her five-year-old son, defying a U.S. court order forbidding her from taking him to Japan and another that named her ex-husband as the primary parent. But even ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka retired from her quarterfinal match at the Cincinnati Masters against Sofia Kenin Friday with an apparent left knee injury. The injury occurred less than two weeks before the start of the ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - Top seed Ash Barty rallied from a set down to make the Cincinnati Masters semi-finals but world number one Naomi Osaka withdrew from her quarter-final with an apparent knee injury on ... ( read original story ...)

With one more win, she can move into the top spot for the U.S. Open, taking it back from Naomi Osaka. Osaka had much bigger concerns after dropping out of her semifinal match because of a knee injury. ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - Japanese world number one Naomi Osaka retired due to injury from her quarter-final match with American Sofia Kenin. Kenin was leading 6-4 1-6 2-0 when Osaka retired. ( read original story ...)

With one more win, she can move into the top spot for the U.S. Open, taking it back from Naomi Osaka. Osaka had much bigger concerns after dropping out of her semi-final match because of a knee injury ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka and Simona Halep battled into the last 16 at the Western & Southern Open, while Ashleigh Barty crushed Maria Sharapova. Osaka is back at world number one and the Japanese star moved ... ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO--A brown bear spotted repeatedly in a residential area of this city since early August has been shot and killed out of concern that it could harm people. First spotted Aug. 6, the female brown ... ( read original story ...)

Researchers from Keio University Graduate School of Media Design in Yokohama, Japan initially began developing the robotic tail by studying cats and tigers before they settled on modeling its ... ( read original story ...)

Kyodo News agency said 49 people were injured ... More than 7,000 people have moved to shelters in 21 prefectures in the western half of the Japanese archipelago. Bullet trains connecting Osaka and ... ( read original story ...)

On the anniversary of Japan's Second World War surrender, South Korea's president on Thursday urged Japan to contemplate its wartime past and offered to engage in talks to repair strained ties, while ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) -- Tokyo's summer heat has forced an Olympic women's triathlon qualifying event to be shortened because of high temperatures that are likely to impact next year's games. The International ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A powerful typhoon lashed southwestern Japan Thursday with massive rain and strong winds, injuring at least 11 people and paralyzing traffic during Japan's Buddhist holiday week. Typhoon ... ( read original story ...)