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Japan's ambition to deliver a primary budget surplus for the first time in decades is going to be pushed back a year, a government estimate showed on Friday, as pressures for more spending weigh on ... ( read original story ...)

Most Japanese companies with operations in the United States are preparing for possible additional tariffs under the incoming Trump administration, according to a survey released on Friday by the ... ( read original story ...)

North Korea warned Friday that it would exercise its right to self-defense "more intensively" as it condemned recent joint air drills among South Korea, the United States and Japan. ( read original story ...)

Two-time Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka has stopped playing because of an injury after dropping the opening set of her third-round match against Belinda Bencic. ( read original story ...)

The Osaka District Court on Jan. 16 ordered the Japanese government to pay 400,000 yen (approx. $2,600) in compensation to a male inmate, rul ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka retires from her match against Belinda Bencic with an apparent injury, ending her run at the 2025 Australian Open. ( read original story ...)

A series of articles covering problems with investigations by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau that led to f･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

On Jan. 17, 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people. ( read original story ...)

Individual Japanese investors welcomed the first trading week of the year by snapping up the largest amount of the nation’s stocks in nine months. ( read original story ...)

Cebu Pacific's (CEB) maiden flight to Sapporo took off on Thursday, making it the only airline currently serving direct flights between the two cities, and the largest local carrier to connect the ... ( read original story ...)

Bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were temporarily halted Friday after a fire broke out near a track in central Japan, a ... ( read original story ...)

SACHICO, Japan's first one-stop support center within a hospital setting for women affected by sexual violence, has been asked to leave Hannan Chuo Hospital. ( read original story ...)

Japan's foreign minister said on Friday he would highlight the economic and national security value that the United States' key Asian ally offers during his visit to Washington for President-elect ... ( read original story ...)

The probability of a "megaquake" in Japan in the next 30 years has marginally increased, a government panel said Thursday, with a 75-82 percent chance of it happening. Such a jolt could potentially ... ( read original story ...)

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today the completion of its “Serendie Street Yokohama” project with today’s opening of a co-cr ... ( read original story ...)

A young Sci-Fi writer politician in Tokyo wants to govern the nation with AI, and has announced he will create a tool to aggregate public opinion, manage political funds, and even shape policy. ( read original story ...)