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TOKYO - A city in central Japan has used its emergency loudspeaker system to recall four packages of blowfish meat after discovering a fifth one contained the potentially deadly liver. No one has died. The fish known as fugu is an expensive winter delicacy ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan sees little chance of the oil spill from a stricken Iranian tanker that sank on Sunday in the East China Sea reaching its shores, an official at the nation’s environment ministry said on Tuesday. The large tanker Sanchi (IMO ... ( read original story ...)

(Aichi Prefectural Government's Department of Health and Public Welfare via AP) TOKYO/January 16, 2018 (AP) (STL.News) —A city in central Japan has used its emergency loudspeaker system to recall four packages of blowfish meat after discovering a fifth ... ( read original story ...)

Back in 1998, at the height of our summer, Australian beaches were populated with Japanese tourists escaping the cold of the northern hemisphere winter. Now, hundreds of thousands of Australians escape the humidity of the southern hemisphere summer in ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese city has broadcast emergency warnings to prevent people consuming blowfish, after potentially deadly portions were mistakenly sold. A local supermarket in Gamagori city sold five packets of fugu fish without removing the livers, which contain ... ( read original story ...)

BELGRADE, Serbia – Japan's prime minister says his country is seeking to strengthen relations with Serbia and other Balkan countries. Shinzo Abe visited Belgrade Monday as part of a six-country European tour. He has already visited Estonia, Latvia ... ( read original story ...)

vowed to create an alliance that could challenge the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), reported Xinhua news agency. If the merger comes to fruition, the alliance would create the largest opposition group in both chambers of Japan’s parliament ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday visited a memorial to a Japanese diplomat who saved 6,000 European Jews from the Holocaust by issuing visas from war-torn Lithuania, in defiance of Tokyo. Abe visited the two-story building, now a museum, which ... ( read original story ...)

First race is King of Hammers. (Photo: Yokohama) Yokohama Tire has announced it is teaming up with GenRight Off Road to compete in the 2018 Ultra4 series. Simi Valley, CA-based GenRight, makers of innovative Jeep parts and accessories, will compete on ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Grampus has paid $2.5 million for Langerak, 29, after a short-lived stint in Spain with Levante. The move ends a European stint of almost eight years for Langerak, which included silverware with Borussia Dortmund and promotion with Vfb Stuttgart ... ( read original story ...)

Click for more info. Wedged between Las Vegas’ CES expo and the Detroit auto show, Japan’s Tokyo Auto Salon is easy to miss in sea of automotive news. Blending bits of Summernats, SEMA and Fast and Furious, the TAS is unlike anything else on the ... ( read original story ...)

The news spread to China, where Twitter is banned ... It seems paradoxical that Ms Aoi is widely adored by Chinese fans, given the tumultuous relations between China and Japan. There is longstanding bitterness in China over Japanese brutality during ... ( read original story ...)

HOUSTON (AP) — Sarah Attar saw her run in the Houston Marathon as another step toward Tokyo. The 25-year-old Attar, who holds dual citizenship, was one of the first two women to compete in the Olympics under the Saudi Arabian flag when she went to the ... ( read original story ...)

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov are promising to create opportunities for Japanese businesses in the Balkans. Abe is on a six-country European tour that makes him the first Japanese prime ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Former Australia coach Ange Postecoglou was introduced as head coach of the J-League's Yokohama F. Marinos on Sunday. "Our goal is to make Yokohama F Marinos a team everyone else will fear," Postecoglou said at a team ceremony. "My ... ( read original story ...)

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Japan's prime minister said Saturday his country has entered into a pact with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to boost economic and political ties with the three former Soviet republics. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and ... ( read original story ...)