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Miwa Sado died of overwork in 2013. ANN News/YouTube A political journalist in Japan died from overwork, her employer has revealed four years after her death. Miwa Sado died of congestive heart failure in 2013 after working 159 hours and 37 minutes of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government has been trying desperately over the past ... At the Tokyo-based nursing care business Saint-Works, employees wear purple capes that display the time they should leave the office — an effort to erase all doubt when the day is over. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Friday it hopes to pursue policies to revive the economy that do not rely excessively on fiscal and monetary stimulus steps in a party platform unveiled ahead of a national election ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Benchmark TOCOM rubber futures inched up on Friday as investors adjusted positions ahead of key U.S. jobs data later the day and a three-day weekend in Japan, with the contract remaining on track for its first weekly gain in a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike unveiled its election platform on Friday, pledging to prevent a planned sales tax hike and debate revising Japan's pacifist constitution. Koike's Party of Hope, which is challenging Prime ... ( read original story ...)

The pop-up bar will sell beer, sake and cocktails. Getty/iStock Amazon is opening a bar in Tokyo that will sell wine, sake and cocktails. For 10 days, the web retailer will run a bar in Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza district to promote alcoholic products sold ... ( read original story ...)

(The story corrects policy name to "Yurinomics" from "Yurikonomics", paragraph 2, first bullet point.) By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Friday it hopes to pursue policies to revive the economy ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Richard Gasquet eased into the Japan Open quarter-finals ... Gasquet has not troubled the business end of the Grand Slam tournaments this year, losing in the first round of Wimbledon and the US Open and getting to the last 32 in his home tournament ... ( read original story ...)

HYOGO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PanaHome Corporation, ENERES Co., Ltd, IBJ Leasing Co., Ltd. and the Public Enterprises Agency of the Hyogo Prefectural Government plan to embark on the urban development of a microgrid system (a regional energy distribution ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Some of the middlemen that cryptocurrencies were designed to cut out are getting into the virtual mining business, anyway. With Japanese eagerly buying into bitcoin and similar currencies, SBI Holdings, GMO Internet and other online securities ... ( read original story ...)

Amazon.com Inc. is opening a bar. For 10 days, the Web retailer is going to sell beer, wine, sake and cocktails in Tokyo's glitzy Ginza district to promote alcoholic products sold on its website in Japan. While Amazon has opened physical bookstores ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — World stock markets were mixed on Wednesday as momentum from Wall Street’s rally faded. Investors were watching for economic data and remarks from the Fed chief to provide direction. KEEPING SCORE: European indexes were mixed in early ... ( read original story ...)

Emirates offers special Japanese cuisine, including the Kaiseki course meal and the premier selection of Sushi in First Class as well as a specially arranged Bento box and Sushi platter in Business Class, along with Japanese sake available in all classes. ( read original story ...)

Casinos themselves account for less than 3% of Las Vegas Sands' overall business. The rest consists of hotels, exhibit halls, theaters and commercial facilities. The Japanese public is generally resistant to the idea of casinos. So other facilities like a ... ( read original story ...)

With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' de facto withdrawal from building cruise ships, the Japanese have all but ceded this business to European names such as Italy's Fincantieri and Germany's Meyer Werft. In bulkers and other commercial vessels, meanwhile ... ( read original story ...)

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M, the global innovation company long recognized for diversified technology and collaboration, announced the opening of a new 3M Design Center in Japan, a hub to accelerate the growth of design across the global enterprise. ( read original story ...)