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Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday that Japan would chair a Group of Seven (G7) financial leaders' meeting on Wednesday in Washington to discuss the global economy and financial markets, ( read original story ...)

The head of the Japanese Olympic Committee says Sapporo may delay its bid for the Winter Olympics, going for 2034 instead of 2030 ... ( read original story ...)

Centara Hotels & Resorts, together with Taisei Corporation and Kanden Realty & Development, has announced the completion of the construction of the Centara Grand Hotel Osaka, which is set to open on ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo on the Xbox’s Game Pass platform2, Tango Gameworks is also bringing an all-new update to the game filled with new features. Here’s everything to know going into the Spider’s Thread update for ... ( read original story ...)

There is shock in Kenya following the announcement that the country's Tokyo 2020 Chef de Mission Waithaka Kioni has died at the age of 70 following ... ( read original story ...)

Public scepticism towards major sporting events in light of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics corruption scandal, which has previously hampered Sapporo's hopes of staging the 2030 Winter ... ( read original story ...)

He has been following Japan’s politics and economics for more than 20 years, working at Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the co-author of a 2021 book on the Carlos Ghosn affair and its impact on Japan. ( read original story ...)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to travel this week to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Vietnam, and Japan, the State Department said on Monday. ( read original story ...)

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said on Monday he is considering opening an office and expanding services in Japan after a meeting with Japan's prime minister. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-born giant panda Xiang Xiang appeared in a video released on Monday, for the first time since she left for China in February. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita has revealed that talks are set to get underway over possibly delaying Sapporo's bid for the ... ( read original story ...)

An 18-year-old woman was found stabbed to death at a Nagoya train station late Saturday, soon after a 29-year-old man died after being hit by a train at the same station, police said Monday, prompting ... ( read original story ...)

A man in charge of accounting at a subsidiary of Kubota Corp., a major machinery manufacturer, was arrested on April 10 for allegedly embezzl･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's health ministry says it confirmed 458 new coronavirus cases in Tokyo on Monday. The daily tally is up 35 from a week ago and marks ten straight days of week-on-week increases. Our site uses ... ( read original story ...)

Fighter aircraft took off and landed 80 times on the Shandong, China’s second aircraft carrier, in waters east of Taiwan and south of Japan as of Sunday night, while helicopters conducted an additional 40 flights from the ship. ( read original story ...)

For decades Koreans have been unable to move on from Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula — its rapacious rule, the conscription of laborers and “comfort women” sex slaves. It’s been like a form of national brainwashing. ( read original story ...)