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Two of the four Olympic sprint titles may have evaded the United States in Paris last year but the sport's superpower is targeting a clean sweep at the Athletics World Championships, with Noah Lyles ... ( read original story ...)

Rick Astley has said his most surreal experience of Never Gonna Give You Up was hearing the 1987 hit played back to him by a Tokyo toilet. The singer told BBC Radio Manchester he was surrounded by ... ( read original story ...)

Temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius in central Tokyo for a fourth day in September on Monday, setting a record for the month. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo shares climbed for the third day running Monday, driven by optimism over policy shifts after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said ... ( read original story ...)

Lawmakers in Japan prepared their bids to replace outgoing premier Shigeru Ishiba, as markets recoiled on the political uncertainty. ( read original story ...)

Japan has hired energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie to assess a proposed 800-mile Alaska gas pipeline and LNG plant in a sign it is weighing support for the $44 billion project touted by U.S. President Donald Trump, ( read original story ...)

Ruling party lawmakers in Japan prepared their bids to replace outgoing premier Shigeru Ishiba on Monday, as financial markets recoiled on the political uncertainty and the possibility of his successors ramping up government spending. ( read original story ...)

Potential successors include one-time Shigeru Ishiba rival Sanae Takaichi and Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi. ( read original story ...)

The move is seen as an attempt to avoid a split within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which lost its upper house majority in an election in July. ( read original story ...)

The 2025 World Expo in Osaka attracted 200,000 visitors on Saturday, the largest single-day turnout, according to preliminary data from the event's organizer. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation Sunday to avoid a split of his Liberal Democratic Party after recent election defeats. ( read original story ...)

Climbing for Life,' starring Yoshinaga Sayuri as Tabei Junko, the first woman to summit Everest, to open Tokyo International Film Festival. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysis at a shaky moment for the world’s fourth-largest economy. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he will step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's parliamentary election ... ( read original story ...)

I t took ishiba shigeru 15 years and several attempts to become Japan’s prime minister. It took him less than one year to lose the job. On September 7th Mr Ishiba said he was stepping down as ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he will step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July’s parliamentary election. ( read original story ...)