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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 ...)

Masaharu Take’s films have always focused on painful stories about Japan's “under-class,” people who are often overlooked in a nation stereotyped as monolithically ... ( read original story ...)

Exxon Mobil Corp and Japan's biggest power generator, JERA, have agreed to build a power station and import facilities for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel it in the Vietnamese city of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is not considering building new nuclear power plants to help it become carbon-free by 2050, the government's top spokesman said on Wednesday. For the world's fifth-biggest emitter, reining in ... ( read original story ...)

South Korea has become the third big Asian economy to pledge carbon neutrality, marking a big victory for environmentalists after intensifying pressure on one of the world’s biggest polluters. ( read original story ...)

The Pacific island of Palau will build an undersea telecoms cable financed by Australia, Japan and the United States in a $30-million project, Australia said on Wednesday. It is the first project ... ( read original story ...)

The committee of 30 parliamentarians from both Houses of Parliament will henceforth monitor India's preparation for the Games and Tuesday's gathering was first of several such meetings planned by the ... ( read original story ...)

The new flights, to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, Osaka Kansai and Tokyo Narita, will commence in December, the carrier announced on 26 October. Starlux said it will fly to Bangkok and Osaka twice a week, ... ( read original story ...)

Cylindrical steel and glass towers protrude through solar panels on the vast circular roof of the futuristic, four-story Spaceport City.The spaceport rises from an island that floats in Tokyo Bay, ... ( read original story ...)

Sapporo is leveraging its Japanese heritage, in its first major integrated campaign produced in Australia, with a manga-style advertisement that follows a man ‘in the pursuit for something more’. ( read original story ...)

Cummins&Partners has launched Sapporo’s first major integrated campaign produced in Australian with its new Refined by Rebellion positioning. The new work dives into the rich history of Sapporo, and ... ( read original story ...)

Christian Coleman, the reigning 100-meter world champion, was ruled ineligible after track and field's governing body ruled he missed three drug tests in a one-year span. ( read original story ...)

Burger King Japan announced its “Fake Burger” last week, which went on sale Oct. 23 for only two weeks. At the time of the announcement, the fast food chain was not revealing what made up its newest ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's ANA Holdings Inc on Tuesday said it will retire more than a tenth of its mostly Boeing Co fleet and delay two aircraft orders to help rein in costs and survive a collapse in air travel caused ... ( read original story ...)

Coleman, the reigning 100-meter champion at the world championships, was punished for missing a string of random doping tests. ( read original story ...)