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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to hold a news conference on Friday at 5 p.m. (0800 GMT), his office said, amid growing concerns over his health, following two hospital examinations within a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Sompo Holdings will invest 9.8 billion yen ($92 million) for an 18% stake in Japan's largest self-driving systems company, Nagoya-based Tier IV, a deal that the company expects to help it ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Sompo Holdings will invest 9.8 billion yen ($92 million) for an 18% stake in Japan's largest self-driving systems company, Nagoya-based Tier IV, a deal that the big insurer expects to ... ( read original story ...)

In a sport where Simone Biles is considered old at the age of 23, her fellow US gymnast is dreaming of an unlikely return to top-level competition ... ( read original story ...)

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The Tokyo Paralympics might be on hold until 2021 but you can still test your Paralympic knowledge with our quiz ... ( read original story ...)

A voluntary request to have food establishments in the capital’s central 23 wards operate under reduced business hours will be extended into next month, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced Thursday. ( read original story ...)

A search is underway for a construction worker who is believed to have fallen into a huge disused underground tank in the city of Yokohama, near Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

Design comprises an imperfect ring made up of a dozen bouncing red blobs – some with googly eyes ... ( read original story ...)

Hours after Naomi Osaka said she would not be playing in her semifinal, the Western & Southern Open announced the tournament was taking Thursday off. ( read original story ...)

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has pulled out of a major tennis tournament in New York in a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. "As a black woman I feel as though there are much more ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka has joined the wave of strikes across the major US sports leagues by withdrawing from her semi-final at the Western & Southern Open ... ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK (AP) Fourth-seeded Naomi Osaka reached the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open on Wednesday and withdrew a few hours later in a call for racial justice, drawing quick support from other ... ( read original story ...)

"If I can get a conversation started in a majority white sport I consider that a step in the right direction," former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka said. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka battled back from a set down to defeat Anett Kontaveit 4-6 6-2 7-5 on Wednesday and reach the Western & Southern Open semi-finals for the first time while British number one Johanna Konta ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka said she has pulled out of the semi-finals of the Southern & Western Open tennis tournament in protest at racial injustice. ( read original story ...)