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A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules looked like a massive mechanical patient on an operating table during a routine two-week inspection at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. Stars and Stripes got a ... ( read original story ...)

Campaigning began in Tokyo's gubernatorial election on Thursday (Jun 20) with a crowded field of more than 50 candidates. Already, campaign drama is playing out with one party fielding 24 candidates and using cat pictures in place of portraits on banners. ( read original story ...)

The entrenched rule of Japan’s right - leaning Liberal Democratic Party, along with the country’s deep-rooted traditional family values, have prevented progress in reproductive rights, said Yukako Ohashi, a writer and member of the Women’s Network for Reproductive Freedom. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo High Court has upheld a ruling a lower court that sentenced a 37-year-old former nurse at a Yokohama hospital to an indefinite life term in prison for killing three terminally ill patients ... ( read original story ...)

Japan imposed trade restrictions on China-based companies as part of a fresh round of sanctions against individuals and groups supporting Russia's war on Ukraine, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. ( read original story ...)

Japan is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to intervene in China-Philippines maritime matters, a spokesperson for China's embassy in Japan said on Friday. ( read original story ...)

Asia-Pacific markets are set to open lower after the S&P 500 retreated from its record above the 5,500 level on Thursday. Investors in the region will assess Japan's inflation data for May after the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s inflation accelerated after the government increased renewable energy-related levies, a result that backs the case for the central bank to consider raising interest rates in coming months. ( read original story ...)

Japanese authorities are ready to take action against speculative and excessively volatile moves in the currency market that hurt the economy, the country's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on ... ( read original story ...)

Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., outlasted Japan's Naomi Osaka 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(3), to reach the semifinals of the Libema Open. ( read original story ...)

As campaigning begins to become the governor of Tokyo, we hear from Tomohiko Taniguchi, a former special adviser to the cabinet of Shinzo Abe, on who’s in the lead to run the world’s most populous city. Then: Canada lists Iran’s Revolutionary Guards ... ( read original story ...)

Caeleb Dressel has made his debut at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, posting the third-fastest time in the preliminaries of the 100-meter freestyle ( read original story ...)

As seems to be the case more and more lately, China is the gloomy exception. Blue chip shares slid to a two-month low on Thursday and are on track for their fifth weekly loss in a row, and the yuan slumped to its weakest level against the dollar since November. ( read original story ...)

Coco Gauff missed the Tokyo Games due to a positive test for COVID-19. Three years later, however, she will participate in this summer's Paris Olympics, per ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, June 20 (Xinhua) -- A woman in her 70s was fatally struck by a car driven by an elderly driver on Thursday in the parking lot of a supermarket in Tokyo area, according to local police department. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. Treasury on Thursday said no major trading partner appeared to manipulate its currency last year, but it added Japan to a foreign exchange "monitoring list," alongside China, Vietnam, Taiwan, ... ( read original story ...)