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Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency referred Defense News to literature produced for a 2015 symposium conducted by the agency when contacted for comment on the program. The documents seen by Defense News note that Japan sought a new ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL/GANGNEUNG (Reuters) - A South Korean figure skating pair competing in the Winter Olympics will perform to a popular Korean folk ballad with a couple of words cut to avoid offending Japan over a reference to disputed islands, South Korean officials ... ( read original story ...)

AICHI (TR) – Aichi Prefectural Police have arrested and sent to prosecutors a 55-year-old man over the robbery of two convenience stores in Nagoya and nearby, reports CBC News (Feb. 7). According to police, Kazuaki Shimada, a company employee ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo will host the next summer games in 2020 and the organizing committee has sent a large delegation to near-neighbours South Korea to learn lessons from the Winter Games, which start on Friday. Speaking to Reuters in Pyeongchang, Tokyo 2020 spokesman ... ( read original story ...)

Servicemembers sculpted a replica of the Navy’s iconic “Lone Sailor” statue out of snow for this year’s Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido, Japan. An 11-person team from Naval Air Facility Misawa began the sculpture on Jan. 29 by chipping away at a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited a Japanese Patriot PAC-3 missile battery, Japan's last line of defense against any possible North Korean missile strike, in Tokyo on Wednesday on his way to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan's imperial palace says Princess Mako's wedding will be postponed two years because of insufficient preparations. Mako and her college classmate Kei Komuro announced their engagement last September and were to wed in November. The delay had ... ( read original story ...)

which was leading Wednesday's television news programmes. For weeks, gossip magazines have been delving into the finances of Komuro's mother, who is widowed. In late January, Japan's two biggest weeklies, each quoting an acquaintance of "a former fiance ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Ministry of Agriculture seeks to buy 100,517 tonnes of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that will close late on Thursday. Japan, the world's sixth-biggest wheat importer ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Princess Mako is postponing her wedding to her college ... "I am very sorry for causing a big trouble and extra burden to those who have sincerely helped our wedding," AFP news agency quoted the princess as saying. She will lose her title when ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbled 4.7 per cent, marking its worst fall since November 2016 and taking it down to a four-month low. The US benchmark S&P 500 fell by more than 4 per cent while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 4.6 per cent on Monday. ( read original story ...)

Before fighting game regulars Tekken, Street Fighter and Smash Bros took to the stage at EVO Japan last weekend, a select group of a strong, committed and vocal community came together to advocate the inclusion of the newest title on the roster - Nintendo ... ( read original story ...)

CANBERA (Alliance News) - Japan will on Wednesday see preliminary December results for its leading and coincident indexes, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. The leading index is expected to show a score of 108.1, down from 108.3 ... ( read original story ...)

Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics say they're having no problems raising cash. International Olympic Committee member John Coates, head of the IOC coordination commission for Tokyo, says local organizers have raised $2.9 billion in national sponsorship ... ( read original story ...)

PYEONGCHANG, Reuters (Reuters) - Record revenues from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics sponsorship program have edged closer to $3.0 billion with more partners expected, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesday. Tokyo has eclipsed all of its ... ( read original story ...)

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