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Similar polls taken by other media outlets, including the Kyodo news agency, showed support for ... bloc and other smaller parties including the Japan Innovation Party, which support ... ( read original story ...)

Making their debut in 2015, the troupe holds weekend performances at Nagoya Castle, drawing crowds of local visitors and overseas tourists with gravity-defying stunts, martial arts and swordsmanship. ... ( read original story ...)

told reporters as he was leaving Japan on Saturday. In response, Iwamatsu, director of METI's trade control policy division, told a hastily arranged news conference: "We've checked the record of the ... ( read original story ...)

The Hayabusa2 space probe on Thursday successfully completed a second landing on the asteroid Ryugu after its first landing in February, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said. ... ( read original story ...)

Feuding Japan and South Korea have traded further barbs, with Tokyo accusing Seoul of mischaracterising earlier ... to withdraw the export curbs in the Friday talks, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported ... ( read original story ...)

A survey by the Japan News Network (JNN) released this week showed that 58% of voters backed the export curbs, compared with 24% who were opposed. But the top issues in the election are worries ... ( read original story ...)

Remixpoint said its subsidiary BITPoint Japan discovered overnight that about 3.5 billion yen ($32.3 million) in various digital currencies had gone missing from its management. The apparent hack was ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has reported a hack causing the loss of 3.5 billion yen, or US$32 million, worth of virtual money. Tokyo-based Remixpoint, which runs the BITPoint exchange ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The Latest on a trade spat between South Korea and Japan (all times local): 3 p.m. Japanese and South Korean officials are meeting in Tokyo to discuss Japan's tightening of ... ( read original story ...)

with all 47 prefectures seeing a rise in the figure as companies are turning to people from overseas to deal with a severe labor shortage amid Japan's rapidly graying population and declining ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL, Korea, -- Republic Of South Korea is seeking U.S. help in a bitter diplomatic row with fellow American ally Japan over its moves to tighten controls on high-tech exports. The government said ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's space agency said data transmitted from the Hayabusa2 ... Takashi Kubota, a Hayabusa2 project member at JAXA, was beaming when he showed up at an unexpectedly early news conference to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Japan and South Korea, two major U.S. allies, are again at odds, this time over Tokyo’s decision to tighten controls on exports of sensitive materials that are mainly used in computer chips ... ( read original story ...)

Last year, Naomi Osaka defeated tennis legend Serena Williams at the women's U.S. Open final, winning her first Grand Slam title and becoming the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles ... ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO - Hokkaido University President Toyoharu Nawa has been accused of engaging in power harassment toward university staff, it was learned Tuesday. The university in Sapporo is conducting an ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan’s export curbs on key materials used by South Korean tech companies could drag on despite diplomatic efforts to end the dispute, South Korea’s president said on ... ( read original story ...)