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Yukio Kasaya, who made history by winning Asia's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal in 1972, died from heart disease on Tuesday morning at a hospital in Sapporo. He was 80 years old. His family held ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s space agency says it's planning to launch a major upgrade to its satellite imaging system, as a new flagship rocket is put to the test for a third time ... ( read original story ...)

Seventeen’s “'Follow' the City” project will return to Japan from Friday, just before the boy band performs its “Follow Again” encore concerts in Osaka and Yokohama in May. ( read original story ...)

Three employees at an Osaka Prefecture care facility were arrested on April 25 on suspicion of repeatedly assaulting a resident wi ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s space agency says it's planning to launch a major upgrade to its satellite imaging system, as a new flagship rocket is put to the test for a third time. ( read original story ...)

A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it. The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m by 4m ... ( read original story ...)

Japan said it plans to expand restrictions on exports of four technologies related to semiconductors or quantum computing, the latest in a global push to control the flow of strategic tech. ( read original story ...)

The yen eased to its weakest level in three decades against the U.S. dollar after the Bank of Japan kept interest rates on hold on Friday, leaving markets on edge about possible intervention, ... ( read original story ...)

Airline officials say oil sprayed from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed in northern Japan, but none of the 213 people on board was injured. ( read original story ...)

Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Japan also admitted on March 1 to making a similar blunder. It wrongly believed that a 21-month-old lion named Clay was male when it was actually female, Tokyo Weekender ... ( read original story ...)

A Tokyo court sentenced Mai Watanabe to nine years in prison for defrauding three men she had dated of 155.8 million yen (US$998,561) and for selling a guide on extracting money from men. ( read original story ...)

Osaka Tennoji Zoo announced on April 18 that Gen-chan, a 12-year-old hippopotamus that had been kept as a male, was actually female. Gen-chan never showed typical male behavior such as scattering ... ( read original story ...)

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Japan's factory output likely staged a strong rebound in March from the previous month's decline, with retail sales probably holding firm on booming inbound tourism and easing worry about weak ... ( read original story ...)

Fujikawaguchiko town official says choice to erect a huge barrier is ‘regrettable’ and last resort ... ( read original story ...)

By Satoshi Sugiyama and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is concerned about negative effects of the weak yen, finance minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday, in a fresh warning to speculators ... ( read original story ...)