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Thousands of baseball fans have signed a petition to save an iconic Tokyo stadium where Babe Ruth once played and which inspired best-selling author Haruki Murakami to first pick up a pen. ( read original story ...)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police arrested a 43-year-old man in this east Japan city's Isogo Ward on Jan. 17 on suspicion of riding motorcycles ... ( read original story ...)

Tan Teck Leng of UBS Global Wealth Management says if the Bank of Japan will have a tougher time normalizing monetary policy further into 2024. ( read original story ...)

U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met last week when Kishida was in Washington on the last stop in a tour of the G7 industrial powers. "I fully expect that at appropriate time Japan will be rolling out specific plans to support Ukraine in a variety of ways. ( read original ...

As we wait for the 25-year-old athlete's comeback on the court and the maternal 'fits that she will be sporting, let's take a look back at Osaka's major fashion moments off the court. Who can forget ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's core machinery orders fell 8.3% in November from the previous month, government data showed on Wednesday. The decline was bigger than a 0.9% dip expected by economists in a Reuters poll and ... ( read original story ...)

The move comes after the Pentagon announced it was pulling older F-15 Eagles from Kadena Air Base in an attempt to bring more modern aircraft to the Pacific. ( read original story ...)

Japan's decades of ultra-low interest rates may reach a turning point on Wednesday, as the central bank debates the fate of its yield control policy, which is creaking under pressure as markets ... ( read original story ...)

A group representing major U.S. airlines said Tuesday it does not foresee a return of significant international passenger air travel demand from either China or Japan before the end of March and ... ( read original story ...)

White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held "very productive" talks on semiconductor-related export ... ( read original story ...)

Central-bank actions won’t produce the desired hike in the money supply unless companies and households cooperate. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government has announced a fresh round of incentives for people to move out of the Tokyo region. From April 2023, families seeking a new life in greener pastures will receive JPY1 million (£6, ( read original story ...)

Bryceland's, the cult menswear store, is bringing its vintage-inspired wares—and international partners—to the UK. ( read original story ...)

Thanks to China and Russia, both Japan and Germany have changed their strategic, political orientation. And while it is a work in progress, the historical significance of this move is hard to miss ... ( read original story ...)

Over the weekend at the Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota showed it's not finished making frequent, substantive evolutions to its super-hot GR Yaris hatchback ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Auto Salon celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, bringing something akin to the SEMA show of fabulous Las Vegas all the way across the Pacific Ocean to the monster Makaharu Messe ... ( read original story ...)