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Bamboo is getting attention these days as a versatile and sustainable material for housewares, so the timing is good for a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit that explores Japan's ancient craft of basketry. "Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection" is ... ( read original story ...)

(CNN) — Maid cafes have become so embedded in Japan that it is hard to imagine a Tokyo without them. There are now more than 200 maid cafes in Japan, but the good news is that increased competition is making them much, much crazier. It's even become an ... ( read original story ...)

Some Tokyo stocks were in the spotlight on individual news. Women's wear company Honeys Holdings soared 9.3 per cent and was the seventh biggest gainer on the board after it forecast a 30.5 per cent increase in operating profit for the year through March 2018. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's public broadcaster NHK apologized Wednesday over a cartoon with Adolf Hitler's face that was printed on a T-shirt worn by a talk show guest. The black T-shirt worn by entrepreneur Takafumi Horie also carried a "No war" message on one side ... ( read original story ...)

(Kyodo News via AP) Abe had been visiting European leaders after attending the G-20 summit in Germany. Abe cancelled a visit to Estonia, the last leg of his European trip, and returned to Japan one day earlier than planned. He returned Tuesday and held a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida wants to leave ... while retaining key ally Chief Cabinet Minister Yoshihide Suga and Finance Minister Taro Aso, Kyodo news agency said, quoting unidentified sources close to the matter. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – Three more bodies were found Wednesday in southwest Japan, potentially raising the death toll from last week's heavy rains to 28, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the hardest-hit areas. Two deaths have been confirmed, and a third body is ... ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cherished goal of revising Japan's pacifist constitution has become more difficult to achieve after a plunge in his popularity and the erosion of public trust, a ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday. Support for Abe has ... ( read original story ...)

BRUSSELS – Japan and the European Union exchanged a memorandum of understanding Tuesday on their cooperation to remove terms that restrict the resale of liquefied natural gas from LNG import contracts. The cooperation deal, also aimed at making the LNG ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Kyodo News agency said the scammers phoned victims in Japan. It said the 35 were detained in the southeastern province of Fujian earlier this month and Japanese authorities alerted on July 3. ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK – Japan has joined an international convention for tackling transnational organized crime after putting into force a law penalizing the planning of a range of crimes. Tokyo submitted to the United Nations in New York an instrument of acceptance ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese pensioner accused of killing three partners and attempting to murder a fourth has told a court that she fatally poisoned her husband. Chisako Kakehi was arrested in 2014 and went on trial in Kyoto late last month. Her lawyers have pleaded not ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Members of a Pacific Rim trade initiative rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump are to hold working-level talks Wednesday in the Japanese mountain resort town of Hakone, west of Tokyo. The three-day meeting among envoys from the 11 remaining ... ( read original story ...)

* Sapporo Holdings Ltd's sales apparently edged up 4 percent to 260 billion yen in the January-June half - Nikkei * Sapporo probably will maintain its full-year forecast - Nikkei Source text : [ID:http://s.nikkei.com/2uazPxv] Further company coverage: ( read original story ...)

SEALNG today announced that Yokohama-Kawasaki International Port Corporation (YKIP) has become the newest member of the cross-industry coalition intended accelerate the adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as marine fuel. SEALNG says that Japan is ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama-Kawasaki International Port Corporation (YKIP), representing the Japanese ports of Yokohama and Kawasaki, joined SEALNG, the industry coalition promoting the use of LNG as a marine fuel. It is the second Japanese organization to join the SEA ... ( read original story ...)