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Unfortunately, the company has been inundated with "approximately 2.2 million people in Japan alone" applying to purchase the console via the My Nintendo Store. This number "far exceeds" expectation ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese electric motor maker Nidec reported a larger-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday and forecast a record annual operating profit, although it warned of uncertainty in the global economic ... ( read original story ...)

India is expecting steel imports from China, South Korea and Japan to slow after imposition of temporary tariffs this week, a government source directly aware of the situation told Reuters on Thursday ... ( read original story ...)

A US Marine stationed in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture is facing criminal charges, including the alleged rape of a local civilian woman and assaulting another who attempted to intervene, Japanese media ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a man to three years in prison, suspended for five years, following an accident in which one ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese court has given a man a suspended prison sentence after a young girl was injured by a tire that came off the modified vehicle he was driving. ( read original story ...)

Construction for a casino resort began Thursday in Osaka at a site close to the venue of the 2025 World Exposition, despite concerns ... ( read original story ...)

A local woman was arrested April 23 after intentionally dropping her pet Chihuahua from the sixth floor of an apartment building.Kaori Araki･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa is making final arrangements to visit the United States from April 30 to hold a second round of talks with his counterpart, two sources familiar with the ... ( read original story ...)

Gas importers in Japan are watching nervously as Australia heads to the polls on May 3 in a closely contested election, worried that whatever the outcome, their long-time supplier of liquefied natural ... ( read original story ...)

In 2009, a research group led by Dr. Keiichi Kakui at the Faculty of Science discovered a rather unusual small crustacean neither in the deep sea nor ... ( read original story ...)

While the ban does not include penalties, the Osaka prefectural government hopes to build public consensus to help prevent scams. ( read original story ...)

The total number of visitors to the 2025 World Exposition in the city of Osaka, which began on April 13, has reached 1 million, the official association for the expo said Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo DisneySea will host a new “Dockside Splash Remix” dance festival show featuring sprayed water for the resort’s 2025 Summer Cool-Off event. “Dockside Splash Remix” Show This 20-minute “Dockside ... ( read original story ...)

The number of visitors to the World Exposition in Osaka reached one million on Wednesday, in 11 days since its opening, the organizer ... ( read original story ...)

The Trump administration told Japan's trade delegation that it could not give Japan special treatment regarding its tariff measures, in response to Tokyo's strong demand for a review during the ... ( read original story ...)