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More than 330 domestic flights departing from and arriving to airports in the Tokyo region were cancelled due to the bad weather, while some regional trains were also suspended, local news reports said. Japan's northern regions frequently see heavy snow ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck ... Coincheck's application, submitted in September, is still pending. Coincheck told a late-Friday news conference that its NEM coins were stored in a "hot wallet" instead of the more secure ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is making efforts to further a gradual thaw in relations dogged by history and a territorial dispute. Concerns about North Korea's nuclear weapons program also featured prominently in the Sunday discussions. Japan has pushed for stricter measures ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Coincheck, a major cryptocurrency trading exchange in Tokyo, has been hacked into and has lost about 58 billion yen ($534 million) worth of virtual money, national broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. Coincheck posted on its website on ... ( read original story ...)

Ex-pro boxer Kenbun Torres slammed his van into a police car near JR Osaka Station on Thursday (Fuji News Network) OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police arrested a former professional boxer after a chase ended with his vehicle ramming into a police car ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese media say an exchange has lost 58 billion yen ($ ... It later added that it had restricted dealings in most other cryptocurrencies too. Kyodo News service reported that Coincheck President Koichiro Wada apologized at a news conference ... ( read original story ...)

The Liberals' election platform promises to "save home mail delivery." OF FREE TRADE WITH JAPAN In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, as Trudeau was consorting with the rich and famous in Davos and the bulk of Canada's trade negotiators were holed up in ... ( read original story ...)

Maeda, 21, won last year’s Hokkaido Marathon in 2:28:48. She made her debut in Osaka last year, finishing 12 th with 2:32:19. In December she improved her half marathon time by nearly two and a half minutes to 1:10:22; her goal for Sunday is to crack 2:26. ( read original story ...)

US retail giant Walmart will team up with Japan's Rakuten to launch a new online grocery delivery service. Customers will place orders through Rakuten, which will then be fulfilled by the joint venture. The operation - to launch later this year - will ... ( read original story ...)

reports TBS News (Jan. 26). At just past 2:00 p.m., Hideyoshi Okamura, a resident of Nagoya’s Mizuho Ward, came up from behind the doctor, 42, inside an examination room of a surgical department at the Fujita Health University Banbuntane Hotokukai ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a very rare low temperature advisory for capital Tokyo as cold air started affecting the country on Wednesday, January 24, 2018. This is the first such warning for Tokyo in 33 years, officials said, adding the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's ambulance service has experienced its busiest day in more than 80 years, officials said Thursday, amid icy conditions as the Japanese capital shivers through its coldest temperatures in decades. The Tokyo fire department, which runs the ambulance ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – The Japanese government opened a small museum Thursday displaying maps and documents to defend its territorial claims against neighbors South Korea and China. The Japanese minister in charge of territorial issues, Tetsuma Esaki, said it was ... ( read original story ...)

According to Kyodo News, three military helicopters made emergency landings ... US Defence Secretary James Mattis apologised to Japan, his Japanese counter-part Itsunori Onodera told reporters. Okinawa hosts the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan yet ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he would attend the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea next month, after reports he would not attend due to a dispute over “comfort women” forced to work in Japan’s wartime ... ( read original story ...)

KAWASAKI, Japan — There was a putrid smell emanating from the apartment. There was an obvious brown stain on the futon where the body had been. The futon, the clothes, the newspapers and horse-racing stubs were covered with maggots and flies. Still ... ( read original story ...)