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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should deploy expansive fiscal stimulus "without hesitation" next year if overseas economies pose downside risks to growth, a draft of the government's annual economic policy ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese economy minister Toshimitsu Motegi told a news conference after a regular cabinet meeting. Japan and the United States will hold working-level talks on trade in the United States on June ... ( read original story ...)

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are more than a year away, but controversy for ticket holders is already brewing. Per the fine print on the terms and conditions of ticket purchase, attendees will be barred ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA--A power unit malfunction is believed to have caused an automated train here to depart a station in the wrong direction, injuring more than a dozen passengers. No irregularities were found in ... ( read original story ...)

Movie ticket prices in Japan have been raised for the first time in 26 years. Astonishingly, standard admission prices have stood at ￥1,800 (just under £14) since the last price hike, way back in 1993 ... ( read original story ...)

according to Kyodo News. In that incident, the suspect was also a middle-aged social recluse -- known in Japan as "hikikomori" -- who rarely left the house where he lived with his elderly aunt and ... ( read original story ...)

The campaign is referred to in Japan as #KuToo. It plays on the Japanese words for shoes "kutsu" and pain "kutsuu" and also references the #MeToo movement, according to Kyodo News. Campaigners say ... ( read original story ...)

Hideaki Kumazawa, who served as a top bureaucrat in the farm ministry, was arrested on Saturday for stabbing his 44-year-old son Eiichiro to death at their home in Tokyo, Kyodo News agency reported. ... ( read original story ...)

No. 1 Naomi Osaka was shockingly ousted from the French Open over the weekend, closing her shot at a third consecutive Grand Slam title and an eventual calendar Grand Slam. Osaka, who opened the year ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo, Japan - A group of Japanese women Monday submitted a petition to the government to protest what they say is a de-facto requirement for female staff to wear high heels at work. The #KuToo ... ( read original story ...)

The incidents spotlight Japan's growing legion of adult hikikomori ... told investigators his alarm over his son was provoked by news last week of a knife-wielding man who slashed at a group of ... ( read original story ...)

Gervais said she first heard the news late Monday night when a fellow ... when the Vatican asked Canadian priests to send missionaries to Japan. Cardinal Maurice Roy, who was serving as Quebec ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business investment rose in January-March, continuing the run of growth seen over the past two years although signs of slowing momentum have raised concerns about the ... ( read original story ...)

Junichi Mitsubori is a culinary rockstar in Japan, famous for his intricate dessert sculptures known as "wagashi." The edible art form goes back over 300 years but Mitsubori has brought it into the ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - Yuta Ikeda qualified for next month’s British Open by winning the Japan Tour’s Mizuno Open on Sunday, a tournament where the monster length of the course raised eyebrows. ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA - Driverless train operator Yokohama Seaside Line Co. said Sunday that data transmission was normal between its operating system and a train which ran into a buffer the previous day, injuring ... ( read original story ...)