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TOKYO (Reuters) - A self-driving car service could be on Tokyo’s public roads in time for the 2020 Olympics as Japan looks to drive investment in new technology to drive economic growth, according to a government strategic review announced on Monday. ( read original story ...)

Seigo Fujiwara, a Japan Post deliveryman, from the Otari village annual calendar. Photograph: Otari village office Keito Kobayashi has swapped his usual work clothes for the uniform of his second job as a volunteer firefighter. He is, the caption in the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has a sex problem. The country's birthrate is in the negative, where deaths are outpacing births. Simply put, Japan's population is decreasing. But let's be clear: Population change is a complicated subject affected by many factors. Western media ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo: Sayako had been trying to conceive a second child for two years when her boss at a Japanese daycare centre suggested she stop because she had missed her “turn”. Sayako, who spoke to AFP using a pseudonym, learned her boss had an unwritten policy ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has a sex problem. The country's birthrate is in the negative, where deaths are outpacing births. Simply put, Japan's population is decreasing. But let's be clear: Population change is a complicated subject affected by many factors. Western media ... ( read original story ...)

The news comes amid a dramatic slowdown in marriages. The number of marriages also fell to a post-war low of 606,863, down by 13,668 from the previous year. Forget millennials – Japan Airlines wants their grandparents on its new budget carrier The ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's defence minister has urged the international community to keep sanctions and surveillance on North Korea, saying it has a history of reneging on agreements. Itsunori Onodera said North Korea agreed to give up nuclear weapons as early as 1994, but ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL, June 3 (Yonhap) -- The Japanese city of Osaka and the Vietnamese central coastal city of Danang have became two of the most popular tourist destinations for South Koreans this year, an online ticket seller said Sunday. Osaka topped the list of the ... ( read original story ...)

The 13th-seeded American matched her best run in Paris with a 6-1 7-6(7) win over Japan's Naomi Osaka on Friday and probably expected to be facing fourth seed Elina Svitolina next. Instead, she is up against 31st seed Buzarnescu with a first Roland Garros ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin faced so much criticism from his Group of Seven counterparts this week over new trade levies that Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said he almost ‘felt sorry’ for the U.S. finance chief. “He’s not directly ... ( read original story ...)

Last month, news outlets all over the world reported on the discovery of a plastic shopping bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench near the Philippines, the deepest point in the Earth’s oceans. The discovery was made by a group of Japanese researchers ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) has been detected in Vancouver, causing a great deal of concern in the local food, ornamental plant and turf industries. This beetle has been established in the eastern U.S. and Canada for some time, but in those ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo (AFP) – Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call “gruesome and unnecessary”. The four-month expedition in the Antarctic ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s defense minister has urged the international community ... Pompeo spoke to reporters at a news conference in New York after meeting Thursday with former North Korean military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol. He would not say that the summit ... ( read original story ...)

IAAF Newsletter 2018 IAAF News 191 - March 2018 PDF En IAAF Newsletter 2018 IAAF ... IAAF Newsletter For the record Member federation elections - News 151 PDF En The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games --Tokyo 2020-- announced ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said on Saturday it was important not to reward North Korea for only agreeing to dialogue and it must take concrete action to dismantle all of its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. ( read original story ...)