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TOKYO – President Donald Trump can expect a friendly reception in Japan, his first stop on a five-nation Asia trip that kicks off Sunday. He and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe largely see eye-to-eye on how to deal with the vexing problem of North ... ( read original story ...)

The latest poll by Kyodo News finds 52.6 percent of the Japanese public are opposed to Abe's current proposal with only 38.3 percent in support of it. When one also considers the fact the opposition parties will fight a ferocious campaign against revision ... ( read original story ...)

and principal Shin Gil-Ung said anger over North Korea’s nuclear programme –- expected to dominate US President Donald Trump’s visit to Japan starting Sunday -– has only made things worse. “Every time news (about North Korea) breaks, we get ... ( read original story ...)

"We know from other news reports that there has been an accident at the nuclear test site, and the situation that North Korea may have anticipated with radiation being contained within North Korea has changed,” Myers said. Japanese TV reported the ... ( read original story ...)

The lukewarm turnout on Friday morning contrasted with the breathless coverage of her visit by the Japanese news media, which followed Ms. Trump’s every move around Tokyo and treated her landing at Narita International Airport and dinner at a luxurious ... ( read original story ...)

the US President on Thursday struck an optimistic tone on a potential solution for the ongoing crisis in an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, saying that it is "a thing that I think we will solve." "They should be worried," Trump said, citing Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Park views North Koreans as misunderstood victims. "I feel news about North Korea is really exaggerated, especially in Japan," he said. "They depict it as though it's hell on Earth." Kum Son Gyun, 17, a student at a North Korean school, visited North Korea ... ( read original story ...)

During World War Two, thousands of Japanese pilots volunteered to be kamikaze, suicidally crashing their planes in the name of their emperor. More than 70 years on, the BBC's Mariko Oi asks what these once revered men mean to Japan's youth. Irrational ... ( read original story ...)

‘I am very excited to visit Japan with Chelsea and Yokohama, said Lampard. ‘I can’t wait to meet as many of the Chelsea fans in Tokyo as possible. ‘Japan is home to some of the most passionate and loyal football supporters in the world and I love ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo police have formed a squad of female officers to guard first lady Melania Trump when she and President Trump visit Japan in a few days, Japanese media reported today. The squad will also protect Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and one of his ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A marketing company in Tokyo has opted for a novel perk for its employees: an extra week's holiday for those who are nonsmokers. A spokesman for Piala, Hirotaka Matsushima, said Thursday that the company began offering the six days of vacation to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan was riveted as the news media disclosed more grisly details from the second day of the investigation, reporting that Mr. Shiraishi, 27, had confessed to finding the victims, who he said were considering suicide, on Twitter. In Japan, a low-crime ... ( read original story ...)

The Wallabies will open their 2019 Rugby World Cup bid at Sapporo in Japan's north before shifting their base to Tokyo. The Wallabies will open their 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign at Sapporo in Japan's north but plan to base themselves in Tokyo for the ... ( read original story ...)

Park views North Koreans as misunderstood victims. "I feel news about North Korea is really exaggerated, especially in Japan," he said. "They depict it as though it's hell on Earth." Kum Son Gyun, 17, a student at a North Korean school, visited North Korea ... ( read original story ...)

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Motoko Rich, The Times’s Tokyo bureau chief, discussed the tech she's using. What kind of tech tools do you use to cover news in Japan? Probably the most important piece of hardware I regularly use — aside from my laptop and cellphone — is a backup ... ( read original story ...)