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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are more than a year away, but controversy for ticket holders is already brewing. Per the fine print on the terms and conditions of ticket purchase, attendees will be barred ... ( read original story ...)

Wait, wasn’t the ‘Stang in Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift driven by a Nissan GT-R RB26? You’re right, it was—at least one of them, anyway. Apparently, three of the muscle cars were built for ... ( read original story ...)

“Japan and South Korea remain two of Saskatchewan’s most important and valued customers and it is important we strengthen those relationships.” Saskatchewan’s exports to Japan were valued ... ( read original story ...)

But such policy measures would be unprecedented in the developed world, according to reports. Kyodo News reported Tuesday the proposal was concerned with welfare spending at a time when Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

has since gained over 19,000 signatures in Japan and gone viral on social media. Ishikawa decided to start the movement, called #KuToo (a reference to the #MeToo movement, Kyoto News reports) after ... ( read original story ...)

A social media campaign against dress codes and expectations that women wear high heels at work has gone viral in Japan, with thousands joining the #KuToo movement. Nearly 20,000 women have signed an ... ( read original story ...)

She called the campaign the #KuToo movement, which is a play on #MeToo and an amalgam of the Japanese terms for “shoes” and “pain.” At a news conference, the 32-year-old Ishikawa said that the ... ( read original story ...)

“We need to restart train operations as early as possible, as there is a limit to substituting services by buses,” said Yokohama Seaside Line President Akihiko Mikami at a news conference prior to the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should deploy expansive fiscal stimulus "without hesitation" next year if overseas economies pose downside risks to growth, a draft of the government's annual economic policy ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese economy minister Toshimitsu Motegi told a news conference after a regular cabinet meeting. Japan and the United States will hold working-level talks on trade in the United States on June ... ( read original story ...)

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are more than a year away, but controversy for ticket holders is already brewing. Per the fine print on the terms and conditions of ticket purchase, attendees will be barred ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA--A power unit malfunction is believed to have caused an automated train here to depart a station in the wrong direction, injuring more than a dozen passengers. No irregularities were found in ... ( read original story ...)

Movie ticket prices in Japan have been raised for the first time in 26 years. Astonishingly, standard admission prices have stood at ￥1,800 (just under £14) since the last price hike, way back in 1993 ... ( read original story ...)

according to Kyodo News. In that incident, the suspect was also a middle-aged social recluse -- known in Japan as "hikikomori" -- who rarely left the house where he lived with his elderly aunt and ... ( read original story ...)

The campaign is referred to in Japan as #KuToo. It plays on the Japanese words for shoes "kutsu" and pain "kutsuu" and also references the #MeToo movement, according to Kyodo News. Campaigners say ... ( read original story ...)

Hideaki Kumazawa, who served as a top bureaucrat in the farm ministry, was arrested on Saturday for stabbing his 44-year-old son Eiichiro to death at their home in Tokyo, Kyodo News agency reported. ... ( read original story ...)