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Aichi Prefectural Police are attempting to identify a person who was hit and killed by a train in Nagoya on Monday ... ( read original story ...)

While he can't be sure if the delayed Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in 2021, Australian Boomers veteran Joe Ingles has already had conversations about also playing the 2024 Games in Paris. ( read original story ...)

Among the challenges awaiting newly appointed Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is the urgent challenge of how to keep the world’s third-largest economy growing as ... ( read original story ...)

Before he got Japan's top government job officially, Yoshihide Suga was known as a “shadow" prime minister and the right-hand man for his long-serving predecessor. When ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese stocks ended marginally higher on Wednesday on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would reinforce its commitment to keeping rates low at a meeting later in the day. ( read original story ...)

So how is it that Mr Suga is now suddenly Japan's new prime minister? According to economist and long-time Tokyo resident Jesper Koll, Mr Suga was chosen by (LDP) bosses, the faction leaders who wield ... ( read original story ...)

MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policies ... ( read original story ...)

Yoshihide Suga has been elected Japan's new Prime Minister following a vote in the country's Parliament on Wednesday, confirming the former cardboard factory worker and farmer's son as leader of the ... ( read original story ...)

The 71-year-old Suga, who previously served as Abe’s right-hand man, has pledged to keep in place his former boss’s flexible fiscal stance and ultra-easy monetary policy known as “Abenomics" ... ( read original story ...)

Mr Suga then easily won the vote for prime minister in the Diet, Japan's lower house, where a coalition headed by his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) holds a majority. ( read original story ...)

The freshly minted head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and incoming Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who has vowed to continue the policies of his predecessor Shinzo Abe, was set to ... ( read original story ...)

Yoshihide Suga, the man set to be elected Japan's next prime minister Wednesday, is a farmer's son with a reputation for inscrutability who has been a key government adviser and policy enforcer. The ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's parliament votes Wednesday for the country's next prime minister, with powerful cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga all but assured the top job, as Shinzo Abe ends his record-breaking tenure. ( read original story ...)

Japan said on Tuesday it has committed 17.2 billion yen ($165 million) in funds for its participation in the World Health Organization's COVID-19 vaccine programme. The programme, known as COVAX, is a ... ( read original story ...)