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A former Green Beret and his son can be extradited to Japan to face charges for smuggling the former chairman of the Nissan Motor Co. out of the country. ( read original story ...)

Each year, a unique phenomenon causes a mountaintop lake to transform into a giant “dragon eye”. Nestled near the Mount Hachimantai summit in north-eastern Japan is a lake mythically believed to be ... ( read original story ...)

Moderna Inc. signed a contract with Japan’s government to supply 50 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine and said it is in advanced talks with the European Union to expand vaccine supply there. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. State Department has approved turning over to Japan two Massachusetts men to face charges that they helped smuggle former Nissan Motor Co Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country while he was ... ( read original story ...)

Hokkaido Prefecture upped its alert level for the novel coronavirus for the first time on Oct. 28 as new cases surged on Japan's northernmost main island, a popular tourist destination. The alert ... ( read original story ...)

Hokkaido police arrested a 29-year-old man over the alleged fatal assault of a female acquaintance at his residence in Sapporo on Wednesday ... ( read original story ...)

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK), announced today that it will import and distribute 50 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, starting in the first ... ( read original story ...)

The foreign minister Marise Payne says Australia “acknowledges” decisions by Japan and South Korea to adopt net zero targets for 2050, but she has declined to welcome that development, despite ... ( read original story ...)

Shionogi & Co is planning clinical trials by year-end for what may be one of Japan's first domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines to reach the market, as the globe races to secure enough doses to ... ( read original story ...)

Hawaii will begin allowing visitors from Japan to bypass the state’s 14-day quarantine requirement if they test negative for COVID-19. ( read original story ...)

Sapporo, Oct. 28 (Jiji Press)--The government of Hokkaido raised on Wednesday the novel coronavirus alert from Stage 1, the lowest level under its five-tier COVID-19 warning system, to Stage 2, ... ( read original story ...)

It is almost a year ago now, and still we are trying to make sense of it. On the last Saturday of October England defeated the All Blacks, the reigning back-to-back world champions, with what many ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga listens to a question during a Lower House's plenary session at the National Diet in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says his government is working on the final details of a plan to release massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant ... ( read original story ...)

The International Paralympic Committee will send up to six athletes to Tokyo 2020 as part of a Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT). ( read original story ...)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said it has asked several other companies to temporarily employ idle workers from its factories in central Japan in a bid to cut costs and weather a downturn from ... ( read original story ...)