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Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.By ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's top court has ruled as unconstitutional a defunct eugenics law which saw 16,500 disabled people forcibly sterilised between the 1950s and 1990s. The Supreme Court also ordered the government ... ( read original story ...)

Blackstone and MBK Partners said on Wednesday the U.S. private equity firm is selling Japanese drugmaker Alinamin Pharmaceutical to the North Asian buyout fund.The deal size would be 350 billion yen ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s annual pay negotiations ended with the highest raises in more than three decades, according to the final tally of the country’s biggest union group, confirming an upward trend in wages sought ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will introduce a new type of floating-rate note that helps investors mitigate the risk from rising bond yields, two government sources told Reuters, a sign policymakers are gearing up for ... ( read original story ...)

In the lawsuit filed with the Sapporo District Court, the plaintiffs, including the 29 family members of 14 passengers of the sunken boat, are seeking some ¥1,499 million ($9.2 million) in damages ... ( read original story ...)

As the calendar turned to July, the banzuke (rankings) for the last-ever Nagoya tournament at Dolphins Arena (also known as Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium) were released by the Japan Sumo Association ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has issued its first new banknotes in two decades, yen packed with 3-D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting. ( read original story ...)

The families of 14 victims of a fatal tourist boat accident off Hokkaido in 2022 that left 20 people dead and six missing filed Wed ... ( read original story ...)

KIEFER Ravena is, indeed, staying in Japan for two more years after signing with Yokohama B-Corsairs. Ravena made the confirmation himself on Tuesday during the media day of Strong Group Athletics, a ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka and UNDP Tokyo Representative Office Director Hideko Hadzialic signed an agreement on cooperation in the reconstruct ... ( read original story ...)

In the past, Osaka was absolutely a dominant force and one of the best in the world. But her old winning formula might be a bit outdated as the 26-year-old says she is done with "revisiting the past" ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese service activity contracted for the first time in nearly two years in June as domestic demand cooled, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday, although business confidence and hiring ... ( read original story ...)

Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to ... ( read original story ...)

Kiefer Ravena is looking for a change of pace to better himself and he did just that with his most recent move in the Japan B.League. After a rollercoaster string of seasons with the Shiga Lakes, ... ( read original story ...)

Large poster boards promoting candidates for Tokyo’s upcoming gubernatorial election are visible all over the city, but in a historic race where two women are vying for the top post, it’s a host of ... ( read original story ...)