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The Japanese government pushed for the global moratorium on whaling to be lifted and for commercial whaling quotas to be established by 2020. At the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in F... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s official Central News Agency said the 61-year-old had only taken up the ... Taiwan media said Su had faced harsh criticism over his handling of Taiwan nationals stranded in Japan in the wake ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese buyer has loaded Iranian oil on a tanker expected to arrive in Japan in early October, in what could be the last purchase of Iranian oil before the U.S. sanctions snap back in early ... ( read original story ...)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Japanese supply run to the International Space Station has been delayed again. The countdown was halted Saturday local time in Japan, with only a few hours remaining before l... ( read original story ...)

SAO PAULO – Members of the International Whaling Commission defeated a Japanese proposal to reinstate commercial whaling at a meeting in Brazil on Friday. The commission suspended commercial whaling i... ( read original story ...)

but now people there seem to enjoy pop and rock from Japanese, South Korean and Chinese artists. "Of course I had a dream ... we wanted to be the biggest rock stars in the world but 25 years ago they ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese city of Sapporo is expected to stop pursuing the 2026 Winter Olympics, leaving four possible candidates as the IOC struggles to find hosts — particularly for the Winter Games ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Naomi Osaka said on Thursday Serena Williams ... t even know what I’m expected to feel,” she told a news conference in Yokohama ahead of the Pan Pacific tournament ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Naomi Osaka’s victory in the U.S. Open has added her to a growing list of athletes, Nobel Prize winners, and beauty pageant contestants who have raised the issue of what it means to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose a proposal to adopt daylight savings time ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, citing the time and effort to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is vying for his third re-election as the ruling party leader next week, extending his stay in power to work on his long-cherished ambition -- to revise his ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan’s Nissan Motor Co has signed U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka as its next brand ambassador, the automaker said on Thursday, tapping the tennis star’s youth ... ( read original story ...)

but now people there seem to enjoy pop and rock from Japanese, Korean and Chinese artists. Yoshiki, who uses one name, was speaking Thursday at a news conference in Tokyo to promote what will be the b... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka's victory in the U.S. Open has added her to a growing list of athletes, Nobel Prize winners, and beauty pageant contestants who have raised the issue of what it means to be Japanese. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — As a brass band blared "Anchors Aweigh," Tokyo's governor led Thursday's opening ceremony for the Japanese capital's new fish market and tried to assuage concerns about contamination at the si... ( read original story ...)

HANOI, Vietnam — Japan is gearing up to accept more foreign workers as its own population is on the brink of a steep decline, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Friday. Kono told a World Economic Forum m... ( read original story ...)