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Japanese carmaker Suzuki Motor will invest 350 billion rupees ($4.21 billion) for a second car plant in India's Gujarat state, its president said on Wednesday at an investment summit in India. ( read original story ...)

Japan has tightened its air traffic control protocols after a fiery collision at Tokyo's main airport in which five people died but hundreds escaped to safety, the government said Wednesday.In five of ... ( read original story ...)

Insurance claims from the powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula on New Year’s Day are likely to be low compared with other major tremors that have hit the country in recent years. ( read original story ...)

This came after the yen’s gain against the dollar weighed on sentiment and limited the Nikkei’s gains at the end of last year,” said Shuutarou Yasuda, a market analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research ... ( read original story ...)

The first official Tokyo Vice Season 2 trailer is here, revealing the release date for the upcoming Max drama series as well as previewing a new adventure in Japan. Season 2 of Tokyo Vice will see the return of Golden Globe nominee Ansel Elgort ... ( read original story ...)

Wage growth for Japanese workers slowed sharply in November, an unwelcome development for the Bank of Japan as it seeks evidence of a virtuous cycle linking pay hikes to price increases as a ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese workers' real wages kept shrinking for a 20th month in November, data showed on Wednesday, raising fresh alarm for the sustainability of the country's economic recovery as firms enter the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government is considering doubling budget reserves to 1 trillion yen ($6.9 billion) for the new fiscal year starting April to cover the cost of earthquake reconstruction, the Asahi newspaper ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese officials said on Tuesday that the death toll from the devastating New Year's Day earthquake has now surpassed 200 as emergency crews continued to go through the rubble of collapsed buildings ... ( read original story ...)

Tama Tonga will defend the gold at NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya. NJPW announced that EVIL will challenge Tonga for the NEVER Openweight Championship at the January 20 event. Tonga regained the ... ( read original story ...)

Michael Mann executive produces the Max series based on real-life journalist Jake Adelstein’s experience covering Japanese organized crime. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Metro and YAMAHA will begin testing a new multi-language service ‘Visualized Announcement’ transcribing voice announcements in a station on a smartphone. ( read original story ...)

Megumi Koiwai was raised bilingual in Japan by her American mom and Japanese dad. She gets asked regularly where is she really from. ( read original story ...)

In 2018, Naomi Osaka emerged from obscurity to win the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, Calif., charming the tennis world with her shy but relatable winner’s speech. That fall, her fame spread into ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s transportation ministry says it has introduced improved emergency measures for the country’s airports, a week after a fatal collision between a Japan Airlines jetliner and a coast guard plane ... ( read original story ...)

The co-founder of legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli says he hopes the studio’s first-ever Golden Globe win will help the country smile – “even if only a little” – in the aftermath of ... ( read original story ...)