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X Japan founder and bandleader Yoshiki made a name for the group ... Yesterday (May 9) the band cancelled all forthcoming shows following the news of Yoshiki's impending operation. A statement from the band's management reads that the drummer has sustained ... ( read original story ...)

KYODO: Japan is stepping up efforts to win a Malaysia-Singapore high-speed railway project by sending a high-level mission to Kuala Lumpur to campaign for the adoption of the shinkansen bullet train system. During a recent high-speed rail symposium in the ... ( read original story ...)

“The Abe administration needs to consider the people of South Korea as well and the effect on Japan’s relations with South Korea by pumping up such fears.” In a statement to Kyodo News, the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan) said that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research centre devoted to ninja -- the black clad assassins known for secrecy and stealth. While mostly confined to history books and fiction, ninja have been enjoying ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Thursday it will seek partners for its nuclear business as part of a recovery plan after the Fukushima disaster of six years ago brought the utility to its knees and put it under state control. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's Olympic stadium will be constructed around an unusual ... Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. ( read original story ...)

* Says it acquired a plot of land located in Tokyo, for apartment building development, on May 10 Source text in Japanese:goo.gl/31IPm0 Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News) Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles Next In Financials ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks were mixed Thursday morning, as buying prompted by the yen's depreciation against the U.S. dollar was counteracted by investors opting to sell to secure gains made following the market's recent closing highs. The 225 ... ( read original story ...)

This was national news. Miyake wanted to find out what, exactly, was going on with this pop-cultural phenomenon. What she unearthed was troubling, enlightening, and complicated. Her resulting work, the U.K.–Canada coproduction Tokyo Idols (with producers ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo police have accused Toshifumi Yamaguchi of robbing a woman of 9,000 yen from her residence in Toshima Ward in 2007 (TBS News) TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have used a DNA analysis to apprehend a suspect in a decade-old robbery case just ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Thursday the metropolitan government will in principle bear all the costs of temporary facilities for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games to be built outside the capital. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese automaker Toyota's profit fell 6.6 per cent in the fiscal fourth quarter as an unfavourable exchange rate offset better sales, but its president said Wednesday that the company was merely investing in the future. Toyota Motor Corp ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 31-year-old man suspected in a series of pickpocketing incidents on a train line in the capital, reports TBS News (May 11). At around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nobutaka Ando allegedly reached into the bag of a woman ... ( read original story ...)

The frenetic, intense drumming style of one of Japan's most famous rock stars has caught up on him, with the news that he needs urgent neck surgery. Yoshiki, founder of rock superstars X Japan, will have an artificial cervical disc inserted in his neck. ( read original story ...)