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The cost of building venues for the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka is expected to rise by tens of billions of yen from the current ¥185 billion due to soaring material and ... ( read original story ...)

Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's SLIM lunar lander has passed a first critical stage on its voyage to the moon. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) launched successfully on Sept. 6 with the main objective of ... ( read original story ...)

The site of a former U.S. Navy communication installation south of Tokyo is slated to become a new theme park, the city of Yokohama announced. ( read original story ...)

After experiencing a record-breaking number of ‘extremely hot’ days in summer, the unusually high temperatures are due to continue ( read original story ...)

Japan plans to import millions of tons of ammonia in the next few years as part of a push to decarbonize that country’s power generation — an initiative that could present a big opportunity for Alberta’s energy sector. ( read original story ...)

A special-needs school here failed to provide a bus service for all of its students from at least 2011, instead drawing lots to pick who cou･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Japan could intervene again to support the yen if it declines further, former top currency diplomat Takehiko Nakao told Reuters on Wednesday, and said the time is right for the Bank of Japan to ditch or modify its ultra-easy policy settings. ( read original story ...)

The J. League club has been banned from playing in Japan's top club tournament after more than a hundred supporters took part in an August pitch invasion. ( read original story ...)

Brazilian winger Hernandes scored twice in a four-minute span to secure Asian Champions League debutant Incheon United a 4-2 upset against J. League heavyweights Yokohama F. Marinos in their opening ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to lead the effort to put the struggling global nuclear disarmament back on track. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - China's BYD has set the suggested retail pricing of its Dolphin electric vehicle in Japan at 3.63 million yen ($24,565.20), its website showed on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government plans a supplementary budget for this fiscal year, which could aggravate the industrial world's heaviest debt burden. ( read original story ...)

The two limited-time donuts, which can only be purchased at one location in the whole country, combine fall flavors with traditional ingredients. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s professional wrestlers have taken their fight onboard a bullet train. Wrestlers from Tokyo-based group DDT battled it out in one of Japan’s superfast bullet trains. The established Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese authorities are always in close communication with U.S. counterparts on currencies as they share a mutual understanding that excessive volatility is undesirable, Japan's top currency official ... ( read original story ...)