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Japan’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding policy of negative rates meant to boost the economy. The short-term rate was ... ( read original story ...)

The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space ... ( read original story ...)

UN chief António Guterres says risk of nuclear war has escalated and that ‘humanity cannot survive a sequel to Oppenheimer’ ... ( read original story ...)

President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month. ( read original story ...)

U.S. President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr for a summit in Washington on April 11 to discuss economic relations and the Indo ... ( read original story ...)

Merchandise for Los Angeles baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani regularly sells for exorbitant prices in his native Japan, with Dodgers gear quickly replacing its Angels counterparts. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka's return to tour after maternity leave this week takes her back to the Miami Open, where the former world No. 1 was a finalist in her last appearance at the tournament in 2022. But ahead ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s bar scene is one of the best in the world. We’ve rounded up seven unmissable places for you to visit on your next trip to Japan. ( read original story ...)

In 2022, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced a reduction in the total number of Olympic medal events from 14 at the Tokyo Games to 10 at the Paris Games. Four weight categories ... ( read original story ...)

A fire that broke out in a house in Hachioji, Tokyo, on March 18, spread to four other houses nearby, local media reported. At least 32 pump trucks and other firefighting vehicles tended to the blaze, ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan is expected to end eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from a focus of reflating growth with ... ( read original story ...)

A Massachusetts family called the FBI for help in returning the nearly two dozen looted Japanese artifacts they discovered while sorting through belongings in their late father’s attic after his death ... ( read original story ...)

Japan ’s new tallest building has officially opened its doors in Tokyo. Also among the largest private developments in the city’s history, the 1,067-feet (325.2-meter) Mori JP Tower was designed as a ... ( read original story ...)

The United States and Japan on Monday proposed a U.N. Security Council resolution stressing that nations should comply with a treaty that bars putting nuclear weapons in space, a message that appeared ... ( read original story ...)

Researchers at Nagoya University and their colleagues in Japan have discovered that obesity in middle age is due to age-related alterations in the form of neurons in the hypothalamus, the brain region ... ( read original story ...)

HIRATSUKA, Japan — Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC) is planning to build a passenger tire plant in Mexico, rated at 5 million tires a year and valued at $380 million, in a bid to strengthen its capacity ... ( read original story ...)