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No plans yet for the weekend? Get on board the 45-minute Akarenga Café Cruise (adults ¥1,500, junior high and high school students ¥1,000, primary school students ¥800) that departs from Yokohama Red ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Supreme Court has overturned a ruling blocking the retrial of Iwao Hakamada, and 84-year-old man who spent almost half a century on death row awaiting the hangman's call over the murder of a ... ( read original story ...)

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be summoned to parliament for questioning by lawmakers amid a row over a possible violation of election funding laws, several government and ruling party ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government will lay out on Friday a "green" growth strategy that includes a goal to replace gasoline-powered vehicles with electric cars by around 2035, the Nikkei newspaper reported on ... ( read original story ...)

The one-time owner of a London coffee shop now has a paper fortune worth an estimated $155m (£115m) after a deal with a Japanese utility firm valued Octopus Energy, the sustainable energy business he ... ( read original story ...)

The opening and closing ceremonies of Tokyo's Olympic Games will be carried out with a "simpler, more restrained approach," the Organizing Committee announced on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

A Japanese government adviser told the Harvard University endowment fund that its vote at Toshiba Corp's annual shareholders meeting could be subject to a regulatory probe should it vote against the ... ( read original story ...)

Apart from Japan, only New Zealand (after an overt and brutal lockdown), China, Macau, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, UAE and Qatar. I doubt that any country in Europe or the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's highest court has upheld a ruling granting a retrial to a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, a lawyer for the 84-year-old said on Wednesday. Iwao Hakamada has lived ... ( read original story ...)

WAKAYAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A company in western Japan started selling earlier this month what it calls "the fastest accelerating electric vehicle in the world" which takes only 1.69 seconds to ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee appointed Hiroshi Sasaki on Wednesday as the head creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and ... ( read original story ...)

Offering medical care to both regular patients and COVID-19 patients in Japan are becoming difficult, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Wednesday, as daily infections rose to record highs ... ( read original story ...)

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has become the first of Japan’s Big Four law firms to let foreign lawyers become full equity partners, as the quartet fights international rivals for advisory work on ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Olympics officials on Wednesday announced a new creative team that will be responsible for redesigning the opening and closing ceremonies at next year's Games, which will be pared back due to ... ( read original story ...)

Organisers of the coronavirus-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics said Wednesday they have picked a new creative director to redesign "simpler and more restrained" opening and closing ceremonies for next ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese man dubbed the "Twitter killer" has withdrawn an appeal of his guilty verdict and death sentence over the murder of nine people, a court official said Wednesday. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, ... ( read original story ...)