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TOKYO – Just days before Japan's national election campaign kicks off ... a carefully scripted plan to call the Oct. 22 snap election, announcing ahead of his news conference that she would personally head a new party, the Party of Hope, which she ... ( read original story ...)

Get unlimited news Full access to our news and in-depth Autosport Plus features - all in an ad-free enviroment. Subscribe to Autosport Plus FIA will enforce grid drying rules in Japan The FIA has told Formula 1 teams that rules banning them from grid ... ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO — A first-of-its-kind housing facility in Hokkaido ... and the government’s cooperation is essential,” she added. KYODO NEWS ( read original story ...)

Toyota tipped its hand ahead of the 2017 Tokyo motor show and revealed not one, but two concept vehicles it will debut in Japan. The first is the GR HV Sports Concept, which takes design inspiration from the automaker's TS050 LMP1 race car. The second is ... ( read original story ...)

Yuji concedes he "knew nothing" about the sport at eight years old, having moved with his family only a few months earlier from Tokyo to the New York City commuter town of Scarsdale. "I remember being really nervous," Yuji says. "I didn't fully understand ... ( read original story ...)

At the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show, expect automakers like Toyota to recall some of its performance vehicles from two to three decades ago. According to Car and Driver who cited this rumour from Best Car, expect also to see new concepts for the new Supra ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Popular Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, a rumoured candidate in upcoming parliamentary elections, says she wants to influence national politics to speed up changes needed in Japan by starting them in her city. Koike, who became Tokyo's first female ... ( read original story ...)

Amazon is opening a bar — for a few days, anyway, in Tokyo, Japan. According to news from Bloomberg, for the next 10 days, the online retailer will be slinging beer, wine, sake and cocktails at a pop-up store in the Ginza district to promote alcoholic ... ( read original story ...)

Kyodo News reported. Komatsu was arrested not long after firefighters found six dead people at the site, including four boys, a woman and a girl. Japanese investigators said the girl, who was taken to a hospital before being confirmed dead, had multiple ... ( read original story ...)

This week Tokyo-based news broadcaster NHK revealed that one of its journalists who died from heart failure in 2013 at the age of 31, died due to overwork. Last week, Japan's top advertising firm Dentsu was fined 500,000 yen ($4,400) for violating labor ... ( read original story ...)

Early this year, a government spokesman told Bloomberg News that Japan needs to "end the norm of long working hours so people can balance their lives with things like raising a child or taking care of the elderly." Companies have been joining the effort ... ( read original story ...)

... Full access to our news and in-depth Autosport Plus features - all in an ad-free enviroment. Subscribe to Autosport Plus Pirelli predicts first two-stop race since May Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli is predicting Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix to ... ( read original story ...)

More in f1Renault offers to delay FIA signing's ... More F1 News Pirelli predicts first two-stop race since May Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli is predicting Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix to produce the first conventional two-stop race in five months ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Rubber announced that it will participate in the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017, to be held at Tokyo Big Sight from October 25 through November 5 (open to the general public from October 28). Commemorating the 100th anniversary of its founding this ... ( read original story ...)

Leaving Aberdeen at the very civilised time of 11 in the morning, it was just under one hour in Amsterdam to walk across to the other departure gate to walk straight onto the ‘plane for Osaka Kansai airport. The KLM service is superb. Meals, constant ... ( read original story ...)

Get unlimited news Full access to our news and in-depth Autosport Plus ... Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr says he cannot explain his heavy crash in Japanese Grand Prix practice, but accepts it was his own fault 1507282754 F1 Ferrari's ... ( read original story ...)