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Visitors can climb to observation decks from 15 meters to 18 meters high on the Gundam-Dock Tower to have close-up views of the anime icon. ( read original story ...)

Ahead of Christmas celebrations, a large number of both locals and international tourists are visiting the night landscape in Japan's Yokohama city. A decked up dome glittering at the centre of the ... ( read original story ...)

Organizers of the delayed Tokyo Olympics have declined to confirm widely circulated reports in Japan that the costs of the one-year postponement will be about $3 billion. The estimates have been ... ( read original story ...)

The head of the Tokyo Stock Exchange stepped down over a system failure last month, the bourse's operator said on Monday, after the disruption halted trade for an unprecedented full day and drew a ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Stock Exchange president Koichiro Miyahara will step down to accept responsibility for the all-day outage that halted trading on the world’s third-largest equity market last month. ( read original story ...)

An 18-meter "life-size" moving statue of Gundam was unveiled to the media Monday at a theme facility in Yokohama based on the giant robot featured in the Japanese science fiction animation series, ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Stock Exchange President and Chief Executive Officer Koichiro Miyahara has decided to resign over a system failure that caused an unprecedented all-day suspension on the bourse last month, the ... ( read original story ...)

The outage cast a shadow on the exchange's credibility and dented Tokyo's hopes of boosting the country's standing as a global financial center. ( read original story ...)

The cost of the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics is estimated to be just under $2 billion. Japan’s Kyodo news agency and the Yomiuri newspaper both reported the figure Sunday, citing ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese media had reported a day earlier that the total costs of delaying the Games for a year would run to 200 billion yen. ( read original story ...)

Japan's industrial output rose for the fifth straight month in October and retail sales in the same month grew the most in over a year, signalling the economy was recovering further from the damage ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's three-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka has inspired a new manga character to appear in an issue of Nakayoshi magazine next month, the publishers announced on Sunday. ( read original story ...)

Japan's industrial output rose for the fifth straight month in October, fuelled by stronger machinery and car production, suggesting the economic is recovering further from the damage caused by the ... ( read original story ...)

Former world number one Karolina Pliskova has appointed Naomi Osaka’s former coach Sascha Bajin as her new coach for the 2021 season. Pliskova split with coach Daniel Vallverdu earlier this month ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — The cost of the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics is estimated to be just under $2 billion, or about 200 billion yen. Japan’s Kyodo news agency and the ... ( read original story ...)

In the three decades since Japan’s real estate bubble burst in the early 1990s there has been little overall economic growth or inflation. The easiest monetary policy in the world — interest rates ... ( read original story ...)