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TOKYO, March 22 (Reuters) - With cherry blossoms reaching full bloom in Tokyo, Japanese sports fans erupted in jubilation on Wednesday after their countrymen defeated Team USA to win the World ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks surged Wednesday, led by bank-related stocks as worries about the U.S. financial sector eased after U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen indicated the government is ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has left Moscow, wrapping up a three-day visit, shortly after Japanese PM Fumio Kishida left Kyiv. Kishida made a surprise visit Tuesday to Kyiv, stealing some of the attention from Xi’s trip to Moscow where he promoted Beijing’s peace proposal for Ukraine, ( read original story ...)

Japan is once again kings of baseball, taking home their third World Baseball Classic victory due to the heroic ninth inning efforts of none other than Shohei Ohtani. ( read original story ...)

Fisheries officials from nine countries and regions, including Japan, Russia, China and Taiwan, are meeting in the city of Sapporo for three days. Saury catches in the North Pacific have plunged in ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a surprise trip to Ukraine to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- a day after Chinese leader Xi Jinping met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. ( read original story ...)

Japan is set to allocate more than 2 trillion yen ($15.1 billion) in additional aid to ease the impact from high inflation ahead of local elections next month. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka took to social media on Tuesday (March 21) to show off the her baby bump, just months after it was revealed she’s expecting her first child with Cordae. The tennis pro shared a series of snaps from a street in Japan, ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO -- University students in Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido have found the first evidence of a male brown bear eating cubs, in what could be a reproductive strategy. And the students' ... ( read original story ...)

HIRATSUKA, Japan—Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. on March 20 began production of heavy load capacity tires, in response to demand from electric vehicles and hybrids with high capacity batteries. The needs of ... ( read original story ...)

Optimistic early cherry blossom viewers gather at the Megami-bashi walking bridge that crosses the water from the Intercontinental Yokohama Grand to the Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai ... ( read original story ...)

The Port of Los Angeles has entered into separate memorandum of understandings (MOUs) with the Port of Tokyo and the Port of Yokohama – to more formally collaborate on sustainability and environmental ... ( read original story ...)

Separate visits by the leaders of the two largest economies in Asia — China and Japan — are highlighting the geopolitical fault lines created by Russia’s invasion. In Moscow: Xi Jinping, China’s president, ( read original story ...)

The World Baseball Classic will reach its conclusion when Team USA takes on Japan in what should be an epic championship game to decide who takes home the WBC crown. ( read original story ...)

The visits came as tension has been growing between the two regional rivals and top economic powers. China is seeking to expand its influence, and Japan has responded by increasing its defense spending and deepening ties with the United States and its allies. ( read original story ...)

A sample from Ryugu collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft contains uracil, a component of RNA, which is found in all living cells. ( read original story ...)