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Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Thursday after Japan and South Korea reported unexpectedly strong economic data and President Joe Biden announced a $2.3 ... ( read original story ...)

Kato, previously head of the BOJ’s branch in Nagoya, central Japan, joins five other executive directors who assist the bank’s decision-making board headed by Governor Haruhiko Kuroda. The 56-year-old ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA - Nissan's former top lawyer, who led an internal investigation into alleged financial misconduct by Carlos Ghosn, said he endured retaliation, demotions and even corporate surveillance of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is set to designate Osaka and two other prefectures for new virus control steps Thursday as infections in those areas rise less than four months before the Tokyo Olympics. Osaka, neighboring ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Thursday that emergency response measures would be taken in the Osaka area to prevent spread of the coronavirus. The measures would last from ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Business sentiment is growing optimistic, a closely watched economic survey by the Bank of Japan showed Thursday, as the world’s third-largest economy continues to grapple with the damage ... ( read original story ...)

For those who want to extend their cherry blossom season, sakura season in Hokkaido starts around the end of April in Hakodate. It then proceeds to Sapporo in early May, before reaching Nemuro in late ... ( read original story ...)

“I did it due to accumulated job stress,” the suspect told police. Kanome lives in Yokohama City’s Tsurumi Ward. At the time, he was employed at a utility company. The girl lives alone. Naoki Kanome ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka’s 23-match winning streak came to a surprising end with one of the most one-sided defeats she has suffered in recent years. The world No 2 from Japan was uncharacteristically out of sorts ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka 's time in the Miami Open has reached its end after the Australian Open champion fell to Maria Sakkari in the quarterfinals on ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose in early trading Thursday, the first day of the new fiscal year, on improved and better-than-expected results of the Bank of Japan's Tankan business survey ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's first doses of AstraZeneca Plc's COVID-19 vaccine are coming from plants in the United States, the company said in an interview with the Asahi Newspaper. The company had ... ( read original story ...)

The headline index for big manufacturers' sentiment rose to plus 5 in March from minus 10 in December, the Bank of Japan's closely-watched "tankan" survey showed, marking the third straight quarter of ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka had grown so accustomed to dominating that she was not immediately sure what lessons to take after her 23-match winning streak came to an abrupt end in quarter-final action at the Miami ... ( read original story ...)

Maria Sakkari handed Naomi Osaka her first loss in nearly 14 months Wednesday at the Miami Open. Sakkari steamrolled the world's No. 2 player 6-0, 6-4 in the semifinals of the tournament in Miami ... ( read original story ...)

MIAMI (AP) — No. 2 Naomi Osaka's 23-match winning streak ended Wednesday when she lost to Maria Sakkari of Greece in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open, 6-0, 6-4. The defeat was Osaka’s first since ... ( read original story ...)