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US Open champion Naomi Osaka admitted Saturday she is still grappling with her newfound stardom but believes the overwhelming attention won’t affect her game at the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapo... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Italian Andrea Dovizioso piled the pressure on championship leader Marc Marquez by qualifying in pole position for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix while the Spaniard will start in ... ( read original story ...)

US Open champion Naomi Osaka faces a potentially tough test in her debut appearance at the WTA Finals after being drawn in the same group as Angelique Kerber and Sloane Stephens on Friday. Apart from ... ( read original story ...)

Kogawa’s mother travelled from Japan and braved weeks of graphic testimony ... Crown counsel, told Global News. In a stunning admission at the tail end of his trial, Schneider pleaded guilty ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka was drawn in the same group as Angelique Kerber, Sloane Stephens and Kiki Bertens for her debut appearance at the WTA Finals in Singapore. Oct. 19, 2018, at 10:21 a.m. S... ( read original story ...)

US Open winner Naomi Osaka faces resurgent Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber and there’s also a duel between holder Caroline Wozniacki and ex-champ Petra Kvitova in group play at the WTA Finals in S... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) -- The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics promise to be the best. They're being promoted just like the Olympics, planning is ahead of recent games in Rio de Janeiro and London, and the athletes village ... ( read original story ...)

Top seed Angelique Kerber will face Naomi Osaka, Sloane Stephens and Kiki Bertens in the round-robin phase of the WTA Finals. The two groups for the lucrative season-ending competition were drawn on F... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government on Friday ordered a company ... KYB executive Keisuke Saito told reporters in a news conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation. ( read original story ...)

BERLIN -- Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of a joint mission by European and Japanese space agencies to send twin probes to Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. An Ariane 5 r... ( read original story ...)

The list of 70 suspected buildings around Japan included the central government building housing the transport ministry, where the news conference was being held, with the officials saying they were h... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s key inflation gauge edged up in September, bringing the Bank of Japan back to the halfway point toward its price target, though gains are still largely limited to energy. Key Ta... ( read original story ...)

U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka scored a date with "Creed" star Michael B. Jordan, thanks to a little matchmaking by Ellen DeGeneres. The talk show host wished the 21-year-old tennis pro a happy ... ( read original story ...)

Services like this are especially needed in ageing Japan. With nearly 28 percent of the population over 65, mobility is increasingly limited and the country is struggling for working-age employees. To... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s annual core consumer inflation ticked up in September but remained at half the pace of the central bank’s elusive 2 percent target, underscoring the challenge of meeting the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese daily news outlet Sankei News reports. Highlighting the complex tax filing regime currently in place for Japanese citizens, officials from the committee — which advises the government ... ( read original story ...)