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GWANGJU, Korea, Republic Of -- Divers Caeli McKay and Meaghan Benfeito have secured two spots for Canada in the women's 10-metre platform event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. McKay finished third in the ... ( read original story ...)

(CNN) — More than half a million people in Tokyo are being asked to work from home as part of a trial scheme aimed at tackling transport congestion ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in the city. Over 20 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan and South Korea are large exporters of products such as chips and smartphone displays. An escalated trade fight between the two could be bad news for the global technology industry and consumers ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Relations between U.S. allies South Korea and Japan deteriorated on Tuesday with South Korea questioning Japan's commitment to U.N. sanctions against North Korea, while a South ... ( read original story ...)

The move by the two chipmakers to secure supplies of hydrogen fluoride comes after Japan said earlier this month that it would tighten curbs on exports of high-tech materials used in smartphone ... ( read original story ...)

Twenty million train rides are taken daily in the Tokyo. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of employees in Tokyo will work from home for two weeks as part of a trial of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko said on Tuesday it was "regrettable" that the South Korean government had made what he said was an erroneous explanation after the two sides ... ( read original story ...)

“If the investigation concludes that our government has done nothing wrong, Japan should immediately withdraw its retaliatory export restrictions,” Kim You-geun, a senior South Korean national ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA - Hakuho suffered his first loss of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, as fellow yokozuna Kakuryu kept his spotless record to take the sole lead. In the penultimate match of Day 9 at ... ( read original story ...)

Similar polls taken by other media outlets, including the Kyodo news agency, showed support for ... bloc and other smaller parties including the Japan Innovation Party, which support ... ( read original story ...)

Making their debut in 2015, the troupe holds weekend performances at Nagoya Castle, drawing crowds of local visitors and overseas tourists with gravity-defying stunts, martial arts and swordsmanship. ... ( read original story ...)

told reporters as he was leaving Japan on Saturday. In response, Iwamatsu, director of METI's trade control policy division, told a hastily arranged news conference: "We've checked the record of the ... ( read original story ...)

The Hayabusa2 space probe on Thursday successfully completed a second landing on the asteroid Ryugu after its first landing in February, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said. ... ( read original story ...)

Feuding Japan and South Korea have traded further barbs, with Tokyo accusing Seoul of mischaracterising earlier ... to withdraw the export curbs in the Friday talks, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported ... ( read original story ...)

A survey by the Japan News Network (JNN) released this week showed that 58% of voters backed the export curbs, compared with 24% who were opposed. But the top issues in the election are worries ... ( read original story ...)

Remixpoint said its subsidiary BITPoint Japan discovered overnight that about 3.5 billion yen ($32.3 million) in various digital currencies had gone missing from its management. The apparent hack was ... ( read original story ...)