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He is frank about Japan’s wartime misdeeds, and will thus help to nurture the vital but tetchy relationship with South Korea. He combines a commitment to strengthening Japan’s armed forces to enhance deterrence with a willingness to maintain dialogue with China. ( read original story ...)

Japanese currency experts are not budging from their Bank of Japan rate policy expectations even as the yen falls. ( read original story ...)

Striving to be unique, it is bringing attention to artists from around the world whose works have rarely been seen in Japan. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Auto Salon (TAS) is one of the most well-known auto shows in the world with a huge focus on modified and tuned cars. While still holding strong to its home ground in Tokyo’s Makuhari Messe, TAS has since ventured into several international locations worldwide including Kuala Lumpur. ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO, Japan >> Various programs to certify helpers for travelers with disabilities visiting Japan have been established to help promote “universal tourism,” which enables everyone to travel. ( read original story ...)

Tadashi Yanai, the chief executive officer of Fast Retailing Co. and Japan’s richest person, donated $31 million to the University of California at Los Angeles’ College Division of Humanities, a record amount for the program. ( read original story ...)

"I think for me the Asian swing is full of possibilities. The post 'Time to Heal'- Naomi Osaka's Coach Patrick Mouratoglou's Earnest Note Sums Up Surreal Experience With the WTA Star appeared first on EssentiallySports. ( read original story ...)

Intensive work on MGM Osaka, to be Japan’s first integrated resort (IR) with casino, is due to start in days, after Osaka’s city government transferred control of a parcel of land earmarked for it, to the developing entity, Osaka IR KK. ( read original story ...)

The explosion occurred on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy base built in 1943 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pledging to stick to the vital Japan-U.S. alliance while calling for it to be more equitable ... ( read original story ...)

Just after 5 a.m. on August 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the "cathedral" just north of Tokyo. The gushing water, captured by security cameras, was the rain that was ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's service sector activity expanded for the third straight month in September, but the pace slowed slightly and confidence dipped in a sign of the broader economic strains amid weakness in ... ( read original story ...)

Mastao Kanda unleashed an estimated 25 trillion yen to support the currency when it slumped against the dollar. ( read original story ...)

Japanese leadership in damage control amid pushback over proposal, which has been described as premature by Washington ... ( read original story ...)

By David McNeill Our family spent 14 months searching for a home in Tokyo, viewing a succession of depressingly cramped, bunker-like and pricey house ... ( read original story ...)

Technically a spin-off of the long-running Yakuza franchise that began in 2005, the newest game stars series’ regular Goro Majima and follows the events of the previous mainline game, 2024’s Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The plot revolves around an amnesiac Majima, criminal extraordinaire, who’s on a quest to control the underworld of Hawaii. ( read ...