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Japan's ruling party votes for a new leader on Wednesday who will almost certainly become the next prime minister ahead of a general election due in weeks and with the economy staggering from the ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA--The future where a passenger will hail a self-driving taxi by pressing a pick-up point on their smartphones is becoming a reality for the first time here. ( read original story ...)

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka says she will return to tennis soon after feeling the "itch" to play again. Osaka said earlier this month she planned to take an indefinite break from the ... ( read original story ...)

Simone Biles has previously spoken about her performance at the Tokyo Olympics this summer and how it was greatly impacted by the abuse she was subjected to by disgraced former USA Gymnastics team ... ( read original story ...)

Simone Biles opened up about her experience at the Tokyo Olympics in a revealing feature story with New York Magazine, which has the Houston gymnast on its cover. Biles talked to writer Camonghne ... ( read original story ...)

The country has free elections, opposition parties and, lately, public discontent. So why are the Liberal Democrats nearly assured to remain in power? ( read original story ...)

Taro Kono has by far the highest poll numbers of any candidate to lead the governing Liberal Democrats. But party elders don’t think so highly of him. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese prefecture of Osaka has selected a consortium led by MGM Resorts and local finance giant ORIX - the only bidders in the process - to build an integrated resort with casino in the ... ( read original story ...)

Grand Slam champion Roger Federer insists the relationship between players and the media needs to evolve. This past French Open, former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka drew lots of attention to herself after ... ( read original story ...)

Simone Biles sent shockwaves around the world this summer after she withdrew from several Olympic events to focus on her mental health. And while she did compete in the balance beam final, adding a ... ( read original story ...)

"Lifting of the emergency doesn't mean we are 100 percent free," Dr. Shigeru Omi, top medical adviser for the Japanese government, said Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

A formerly unnoticed monoclinic distortion in Ca2RuO4 explains its enormous negative thermal expansion (NTE) over a wide range of temperatures, discover researchers from Tokyo Tech. The work promises ... ( read original story ...)

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka says she will return to tennis soon after feeling the “itch” to play again. Osaka said earlier this month she planned to take an indefinite break from the ... ( read original story ...)

The consortium is planning an initial investment of about ¥1.08 trillion ($9.7 billion) to open a casino complex in Osaka Bay in the late 2020s if selected for a government permit. ( read original story ...)

Toshiro Muto, the chief executive officer of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, said on Tuesday he was not ready to say if the cost of the Games would go higher than the official budget figure of ... ( read original story ...)

Simone Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist gymnast, said she should have quit competing "way before" the Tokyo Olympics, where she had to withdraw from several events due to mental health ... ( read original story ...)