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YOKOHAMA: Nissan is set to unveil its new-generation LEAF early in September, a few days before its public debut at the Sept 16-24 Frankfurt Motor Show. Undisguised photos of the new LEAF, with a design echoing the Pulsar, are starting to leak out into the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Dozens of Tokyo firefighters were battling a blaze on Thursday at the world's largest fish market and one of the capital's most popular tourist sites, as grey smoke billowed over the city. There were no immediate reports of injuries or ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... "The economy remains our top priority," Abe told a news conference after the reshuffle, apologizing for the scandals he described as having harmed public trust in his policy handling. ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire Corporation, in partnership with KaBOOM!, will build a brand-new, eco-friendly playground for the citizens of West Point, Mississippi, which is the home of Yokohama Tire’s new one-million-square-foot plant that opened in October of 2015 ... ( read original story ...)

Aichi police have accused Ichiya Nishida of abandoning the body of a 53-year-old woman from Nagoya who went missing in June (TBS News) SHIGA (TR) – Aichi Prefectural Police have accused two persons of abandoning the corpse of a missing woman from Nagoya ... ( read original story ...)

Today, experts tell Fox News the idea that Japan can and should possess nuclear weapons on its own soil, whether they are domestically developed or provided by the U.S., is no longer the exclusive realm of Japanese extremists. "There are some Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA – Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi cruised to a third four-year term on Sunday by defeating two former national and local politicians. The 71-year-old, who had the backing of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday he hopes a draft U.N. resolution that would impose new sanctions against North Korea following its tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile will be finished "in days." The United States and China ... ( read original story ...)

WEI Qiujie was only meant to be in Japan for a week. The 27-year-old primary school teacher from China had travelled there for a solo trip and was staying in a hostel in Sapporo, a picturesque, mountainous city on the island of Hokkaido. She checked in on ... ( read original story ...)

These encounters were at different times and places in the past few days, China News Service website reported Tuesday, citing information from the official website of the Chinese consulate-general in Sapporo. One of the encounters was along a forest road ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will appoint Foreign ... and aim mainly for economic reform," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

the Japan Tennis Association said on Wednesday. The Kyoto native had been awarded a sponsors' invite for the Sept. 11-17 event at Tokyo's Ariake Tennis Forest Park, Kyodo news reported. Date, who initially retired in 1996 but returned to competition in ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA – A Nagoya hospital will set up a project team to consider womb transplants for women born without a uterus or whose uterus has been surgically removed due to cancer or other conditions, the hospital said Wednesday. While successful uterus ... ( read original story ...)

Thai student robotic team has bagged home a world title in the biggest and most reputable robotic competitions in the world held this year in Japan’s Nagoya Robo Cup 2017 from July 27-31. Thailand sent two teams to compete with almost 400 teams from 40 ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo American Club will be the home of USA House in Tokyo," U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun told a news conference at the club Wednesday. Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club is located a short distance from the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo Tower and ... ( read original story ...)

It’s definitely the light at the end of the tunnel,” Dean Matsubayashi, executive director of the LTSC, told Los Angeles Downtown News. “It’s been really challenging.” The idea of a recreation center in Little Tokyo actually dates to the 1980s ... ( read original story ...)