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Sapporo, the gateway to northern Japan, may not have quite the same neon-lit hustle and bustle of Tokyo or Osaka, but its scenic surroundings, laid-back pace and distinctive cuisine make it a worthy ... ( read original story ...)

CHARLOTTETOWN—Princess Takamado of Japan will visit Prince Edward Island next week as part of the official events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Canada. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s $1.5 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund lost money in equities, fixed-income and currency positions over the last three months, Mizuno said Tuesday in Sacramento, California. ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is becoming the latest source of tension between Japan and South Korea, potentially undercutting Tokyo’s effort to promote the 2020 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Searing heat and water quality issues have dogged Tokyo 2020 organizers in recent weeks but delegates to a Chef de Mission seminar on Tuesday said they are confident their hosts ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama officials are planning to spin the wheel in hopes of landing one of the three "integrated resort" (IR) locations in Japan that will include a casino, according to sources related to the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-Seoul standoff decades in the making, writes Kim Tong-hyung and Yuri Kageyama. A runaway train. Crashing billiard balls. A compound fracture. Journalists and academics in Seoul have been running ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipments of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, two people familiar with the matter said on ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA--Beat an 86-year-old man in arm wrestling and win a free lunch? Many have tried to their regret to put Eiji Okubo down at his restaurant here in the city’s Chikusa Ward. But most have been left ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies broadly support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tough trade stance against South Korea, a Reuters poll found. Three-quarters of companies in the monthly Reuters ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipment of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, Yonhap News Agency reported late on Monday, ... ( read original story ...)

Korea-Japan relations, already strained by South Korean Supreme Court rulings last fall ordering Japanese companies to compensate World War II victims of forced labor, began breaking down across new ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police on Monday arrested a man claiming to be Chinese for throwing a black ink-like liquid on a curtain at one of the buildings of Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for war ... ( read original story ...)

According to Japanese news outlets, the Mayor of Yokohama, Fumiko Hayashi, may announce that her city will, too, bid for the right to host one of Japan’s three casino resorts later this week. It is ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi may announce the city’s candidacy later this week at a news conference, the sources said. Under the integrated resorts promotion law, enacted in July 2018, Japan aims to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The City of Yokohama has decided to bid to host a large resort that will include a casino, Nikkei has learned. The Japanese government has announced a plan to build three so-called ... ( read original story ...)