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Okura Nikko Hotel Management Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hotel Okura Co., Ltd., announced today that it will open Hotel JAL City Nagoya Nishiki, the Okura Nikko Hotel’s first property in Nagoya, Japan. The company signed a contract with Enuwan LLC to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Board members at the club that will host the 2020 Olympic golf tournament failed to make a decision about changing their policy of excluding women as full members. The Kasumigaseki Country Club came under scrutiny recently when the International ... ( read original story ...)

View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170207006603/en/ The new hotel will be located in Fushimi, just seven minutes from Fushimi Station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway. Fushimi, traditionally a tranquil area on the banks of ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. figures reported Tuesday showed Japan logged the second largest trade surplus with the U.S. last year, at $68.9 billion dollars. China's, at $347 billion, was the highest. Those reports were front page news in Japan, where Trump's criticism has ... ( read original story ...)

chief economist and principal at Japan Macro Advisors, told Bloomberg News. “It basically gives ammunition to the Trump administration that the yen is too cheap.” Japan’s current account surplus hit 20.65 trillion yen (USD 184 billion) last year ... ( read original story ...)

US President Donald Trump will play a round of golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Florida this week Reuters Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe has called on companies and investors in his country to gather “tweetable” figures of their US ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan says its current account surplus hit a 9-year high in 2016, helped by lower costs for imported oil and improved exports. The perennial trade surpluses Japan runs with the U.S. are a sore point for U.S. President Donald Trump, and the data ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s prime minister, a man who promised voters he would turn Japan back into a “beautiful country”, is now doing his utmost to Make America Great Again. Shinzo Abe is set to arrive in Washington on Friday for his first official summit with ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is charting its own course to deal with a radically different U.S. president, an approach that will be tested at the end of this week when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Donald Trump in the White House and on the golf course in Florida. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, Japan, Feb 8, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A 17th century Catholic Samurai and martyr was beatified during a Mass in ‎Osaka, Japan on Tuesday. Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Vatican’s ‎Congregation for the Causes of Saints ... ( read original story ...)

The US and Japan have successfully carried out the first test of a defense system designed to shoot down ballistic missiles. The US Missile Defense Agency revealed the USS John Paul Jones was able to track, locate and ultimately destroy a missile by ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Tokyo prosecutors have questioned the president of the Japan Olympic Committee over controversial payments made to a Singaporean consulting firm during the bidding for the 2020 Summer Games, Kyodo News agency reported on Wednesday. The questioning of ... ( read original story ...)

The Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido ... the chairman of the Susukino Tourist Association, told Japan's Rocket News 24. 来月雪まつりだけど、某ワールドの影響で中止になるって一度言われてたススキノに展示される ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese outfit Gamba Osaka were far too much for Malaysia’s Johor Darul Ta’zim as two first goals and one second half-strike ensured they were the team who progressed to the group stages of the prestigious AFC Champions League. With so much on the ... ( read original story ...)

AFC Champions League remains elusive to JDT as well as Malaysian football fans, after the Tigers lost 3-0 to Gamba Osaka in the second qualifier. The AFC Champions League remains a bridge too far for Johor Darul Ta'zim (JDT), after they were beaten 3-0 by ... ( read original story ...)

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The performance of traditional Indonesian dances and Sundanese musical instrument known as angklung enthralled the visitors at the 2017 One World Festival in Osaka. "Indonesias Consulate General in Osaka, in collaboration with the ... ( read original story ...)