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TOKYO -- IHG Hotels & Resorts, a U.K.-based hotel chain, said Friday that it will open three hotels in Osaka this year under its midprice brand Garner, targeting the growing tourism market in Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Empress Masako has expressed her yearning for peace as a mother’s love in her poem, read at an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital Tokyo in January likely fell below 2% for the first time since May 2022, a Reuters poll of economists showed on Friday, reinforcing the view that price ... ( read original story ...)

Critics are unconvinced that another dating app will reverse Japan’s declining population. Instead, they suggest more be done to address fundamental reasons why people avoid getting married and having ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is weighing the dissolution of his political faction after a slush-fund scandal roiling the ruling Liberal Democratic Party spread to include his own inner circle, ( read original story ...)

Japan's core inflation stayed above the central bank's 2% target in December but slowed for a second straight month, data showed on Friday, reinforcing expectations it will be in no hurry to phase out its massive monetary stimulus. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday as technology shares tracked advances by their U.S. counterparts overnight. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ... ( read original story ...)

Can you imagine what it would be like if you had the chance to stay overnight inside the Eiffel Tower in Paris? Although you can’t, you can now at least get close to such an experience in Japan. ( read original story ...)

A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. The number one focus for investors in Asia on Friday will be the latest Japanese consumer inflation figures, with markets across the region hoping to draw support from the strong rise on world markets the day before and end a torrid week on a high. ( read ...

M.D.C. Holdings' stock rocketed toward a 19-year high Thursday, after the Colorado-based homebuilder announced an agreement to be bought by ( read original story ...)

Japan Airlines (JAL) has appointed Mitsuko Tottori as its next president, making her the first woman to hold this position in the airline's history. Tottori’s commitment: Tottori, who joined JAL as a flight attendant in 1985, ( read original story ...)

Japanese media reported that a 55-year-old American citizen was arrested after he bit an mid-flight attendant, an airline spokesperson said. ( read original story ...)

Japan has said North Korean ballistic missile tests threaten Tokyo's national security as regional tensions escalate. ( read original story ...)

If all goes to plan, Jaxa’s lander will make Japan the fifth country ever to land on the moon ( read original story ...)

Ireland beat Japan 1-0 to book a semi-final spot at the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Valencia and move to within one win of a place at this summer's Paris Games. ( read original story ...)

Japan has signed a deal with the United States to purchase up to 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of its ongoing military buildup in response to increased regional threats ( read original story ...)