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TOKYO (Reuters) - A record crowd paid their respects to Japan's 84-year-old Emperor Akihito at Tokyo's Imperial Palace on Saturday, in his first birthday celebration since the date of his abdication was set. The emperor's birthday is traditionally marked ... ( read original story ...)

HÀ NỘI — Yokohama FC defended their title after defeating Việt Nam 2-0 in the final of the Thanh Niên Newspaper International U-21 Football Tournament, held yesterday in Cần Thơ Province. The match was the second meeting between the two sides in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Emperor Akihito has marked his 84th birthday with ... He will attend birthday celebrations at the palace later Saturday. He spoke in advance at a news conference earlier this week. The government this month formally approved ... ( read original story ...)

View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/autonomous-driving-car-to-create-new-growth-opportunities-in-japan-toward-2025-300574866.html Program updating of JNCAP (Japan New Car Assessment Program) and the revision of related laws will ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Rubber announced that it will participate again in Japan’s annual annual car show, “Tokyo Auto Salon 2018” to be held January 12–14 at Makuhari Messe. In addition to appealing to the “High-performance Yokohama” brand image focused on ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Toshiba Corp.'s energy systems unit on Friday unveiled a long telescopic pipe carrying a pan-tilt camera designed to gather crucial information about the situation inside the reactor chambers at Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Facing the eventual demise of gasoline engines, the world's biggest maker of spark plugs is turning its focus to a component it believes will be just as vital in the coming era of electric vehicles - next-generation all solid ... ( read original story ...)

The latest price tag for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been trimmed slightly, but is still nearly twice the initial estimate even after a major cost-cutting effort. The organizers said Friday that the event will cost a total 1.35 trillion yen ($11.9 billion). ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 organisers Friday unveiled a "significant" cut in their budget for hosting the games, as the city comes under pressure to keep a lid on spiralling costs. The overall games budget now stands at a total of 1.35 trillion yen ($12.6 billion ... ( read original story ...)

PDF En Anti-Doping Therapeutic Use Exemptions IAAF Position Statement of Platelet-Derived Preparation PDF En Organisers of the Osaka Women’s Marathon have announced their elite field for the IAAF Gold Label road race on 28 January. Yuka Ando leads a ... ( read original story ...)

who account for a large portion of Tokyo trade, are absent from trade ahead of the Christmas holidays," said SBI Securities in a commentary. The news that Catalan separatists won a snap regional poll Thursday in Spain did not immediately upset the foreign ... ( read original story ...)

(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File) Abe has called North Korean missile threat a "national crisis" for Japan, luring public support for greater military roles and equipment that used to be taboo under Japan's strictly self-defense ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government approved a record military budget on Friday but did not earmark enough extra money to stop a splurge on U.S.-made ballistic missile defense kit from putting a squeeze on funding for an ambitious domestic jet fighter ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet on Friday approved Japan's biggest 5.19 trillion yen (US$46 billion) defence budget to bolster ballistic missile defence capability amid escalating threats from North Korea. Under the plan endorsed Friday ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's defence budget will swell to a record $46 billion for the next fiscal year, the government said Friday, as the nation shores up its missile shield against the threat posed by North Korea. The defence spending was part of a $860-billion national ... ( read original story ...)

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