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JACK Penny has been selected for his sixth world championship but the trampoline veteran has an eye on a bigger prize — the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020. Penny, 27, and Damien Axelsen, 24, both of Hobart, were named yesterday in the Australian Trampoline ... ( read original story ...)

Volunteers assembled a number of the modular homes on Sand Island in Honolulu on Saturday after materials for 30 of the structures arrived from Japan last week, Hawaii News Now reported. The new community, known as the Kahauiki Village, will house people ... ( read original story ...)

Pyongyang’s state-controlled news agency KCNA issued a statement today directly threatening Japan, stating the country’s preparations for a possible war could be “destroyed to pieces”. The statement read: “Should Japan take the advantages of the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Alliance News) - Japan had a current account surplus of 2.380 trillion yen in August, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday. That exceeded expectations for a surplus of 2.223 trillion yen and was up from 2.320 trillion yen in July. The trade ... ( read original story ...)

The Mercedes driver prevailed on the road however, winning the Japanese GP by a margin of 1.211s ... Keep informed with the latest F1 news, reports and results from F1i.com. Also bringing you live reporting, features, interviews, videos, pictures and ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese news reporter who was employed by the national broadcasting network NHK was found dead after working 159 hours of overtime in one month. Thirty-one-year-old Miwa Sado, a political reporter for the news agency, was reportedly found dead in her ... ( read original story ...)

This Japanese summer, two prominent women – the Leader of the ... Within days of forming the Party of Hope last month, Koike saw surging support. A Kyodo News poll a week after the announcement showed that 33 per cent of respondents wanted Koike as ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo - A poodle's dash for freedom briefly shut down one runway at a major Japanese airport on Monday, 9 October, forcing its owner to come out and catch the canine. The dog escaped at Tokyo's Haneda airport while cargo crews were loading its cage onto a ... ( read original story ...)

Chieko Kikuchi, 87, was targeted by thousands of the insects and stung hundreds times after leaving a nursing home in the city of Ozu, western Japan. The Asian giant hornet ... According to National Geographic News, nearly 40 people die of hornets attacks ... ( read original story ...)

It is ending scheduled service from Guam to Sappora, Japan, and reducing all other Japan routes. The Sapporo route will be suspended, effective January 15, 2018. "After careful analysis, we have determined that this route is no longer economically sustainable. ( read original story ...)

Then again, a quick glance at the Liberty Walk yard on Google Street View reveals that capability might not be at the forefront in sunny Nagoya. Sign up to our newsletter to receive all the best and latest news on fast cars and living the performance car ... ( read original story ...)

Garuda Indonesia’s B747-400 planes served a number of international routes including to Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Tokyo Narita, Nagoya, Osaka, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok ... ( read original story ...)

Now Yuriko Koike, Tokyo governor and perhaps Japan’s most powerful woman, is at the starting line of the biggest race of her political life to date: Tuesday’s launch of Japan’s national election campaign. Ms Koike, 65, shook up Japan’s normally ... ( read original story ...)

With a month to go until the Manchester UCI Track World Cup, local fans are being urged to ‘raise the roof’ to support riders targeting Tokyo 2020. Following the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio last summer, the cyclists are back in training at ... ( read original story ...)

The network is rolling out some of the cyphers that took place, including an all-female freestyle battle between Rapsody, Leikeli47, Kash Doll and Tokyo Jetz. BET deemed the cypher as “Hip Hop’s fire femcees” while incorporating the rising talent ... ( read original story ...)

GPO General Manager Monte Mesa said he was concerned at first but is confident that United's Sapporo-Guam flights will resume as the demand to travel to Guam grows back. Mesa mentioned the generous amount of marketing dollars that GPO and the Tumon Sands ... ( read original story ...)