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Caroline Kennedy is stepping down Wednesday after three years as U.S. ambassador to Japan, where she was welcomed like a celebrity and worked to deepen the U.S.-Japan relationship despite regular flare-ups over American military bases on the southern ... ( read original story ...)

The good news is that Osaka, although she admitted she was ‘very nervous’, felt no recurrence of the left-wrist pain of Auckland, which bodes well for an entertaining contest with Konta. The pair have met once before, in qualifying for the US Open in ... ( read original story ...)

Melbourne: Thailand's Luksika Kumkhum was edged out by Japanese Naomi Osaka in three thrilling sets in the first round of the Australian Open yesterday. The nineteen-year-old Japanese overcame losing the first-set to beat Luksika 6-7 (2), 6-4, 7-5. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 organizers say they will review membership practices at the golf course selected for the Olympic Games following criticism that it does not allow women as full members. Founded in 1929, the Kasumigaseki Country Club is one of the oldest private ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's legendary Tsukiji fish market, which supplies the city's finest sushi restaurants and the general public, is set to be closed down and moved to a bigger, more modern site. Toichiro Iida, a third-generation tuna wholesaler, explains how families ... ( read original story ...)

A Tokyo hospital director was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of defrauding a company executive after falsely diagnosing him with a sexually transmitted disease, police said. Michinari Hayashi, 69, head of Shinjuku Central Clinic, allegedly swindled about ¥ ... ( read original story ...)

But Tokyo's recently elected governor ... Hiroyasu Ito, told the Kyodo news agency. That's a bit of Japanese understatement. The site of the new market was supposed to have been covered with a thick layer of clean soil before construction began. ( read original story ...)

Each December at the annual Yokohama Hot Rod & Custom Show. That it’s in Yokohama not Yorba Linda perhaps should not be surprising. For when Japanese wax nostalgic their imaginations often head out on a desert highway, into a mythical land they first ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo shares closed lower Tuesday with the Nikkei index plunged to its lowest level in five weeks ahead of British Prime Minister Theresa May's speech on the United Kingdom's plans to exit the European Union due later in the day ... ( read original story ...)

An Australian woman and her three sons have been rescued after spending a freezing night on a mountain in Japan. The four were reported missing late on Monday after failing to return to the popular Nozawa Onsen ski resort on Mount Kenashi. They were ... ( read original story ...)

HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Tuesday urged Japan to invest more in the Southeast Asian country to become its top foreign investor. Speaking at a conference of business leaders from both countries also attended by ... ( read original story ...)

"The two countries will further strengthen security and defense cooperation and this time Japan has decided to provide (Vietnam with) newly built patrol vessels at Vietnam's request," Abe said at a news conference in Hanoi with his Vietnamese counterpart ... ( read original story ...)

Rescuers scoured the snowfields for the blonde woman, in her 50s, and her sons, believed to be in their 20s, after they did not return from the mountain at Nozawa Onsen, near Japan's main island, by 6pm on Monday. Japanese TV broadcast pictures of the ... ( read original story ...)

At Dentsu, a 24-year-old woman killed herself after putting in 100 hours of overtime. A government spokesman told Bloomberg News that Japan needs to “end the norm of long working hours so people can balance their lives with things like raising a child or ... ( read original story ...)

Vancouver resident Anthony Casey has never shopped at Muji, the Japanese houseware store known for its smart ... The retailer said response to the news of its temporary store has been so "extraordinary" it had to create system for shoppers to reserve ... ( read original story ...)

New Zealand will express its "significant disappointment" to Japan over the country's whaling in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Bill English says. "I think our view is pretty well known and we would take the same sort of view as Australia on this ... ( read original story ...)