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TOKYO -- A Japanese court has denied prosecutors' request to extend detention of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn. The Tokyo District Court on Thursday rejected the request for another 10-day deten... ( read original story ...)

Japanese news agency Kyodo has reported, citing unnamed sources, that the country could leave the commission as early as next year. The government in Tokyo is understood to have been mulling leaving t... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in a bid to resume commercial whaling, Kyodo News reported on Thursday, citing government sources. Japan’s withdrawal fr... ( read original story ...)

Nissan has partnered with tennis Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka to create a special-edition GT-R, of which only 50 will be made. The car is based on a GT-R Premium edition, which in Canada starts ... ( read original story ...)

NORTHAMPTON -- Yokohama Ramen restaurant is now open downtown after more than a year of planning. Since the soft opening on Dec. 9, co-owner Andy Liu said, the restaurant has been busy. "Every day it' ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Coincheck Inc will win approval to operate as a licensed cryptocurrency exchange from the country’s financial regulator this month after improving its governance in ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA - A court sentenced a 48-year-old man to death on Wednesday for killing two junior high school students in Osaka Prefecture in 2015, rejecting the defense counsel’s claim that he did not intend ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has claimed sovereignty over all four islands ... In a sign of its sensitivity, Foreign Minister Taro Kono ignored questions about the islands at a recent news briefing. He later apologized, say... ( read original story ...)

The mobile unit of Japanese tech giant Softbank has had a disappointing debut on the Tokyo stock market. The firm aims to raise up to 2.6 trillion yen ($23bn; £18bn) by selling shares at 1,500 yen eac... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — SoftBank Group Corp.’s Japanese mobile subsidiary ... They didn’t speak at the ceremony but are expected to announce the first-day results at a news conference after the market closes. Softban... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — SoftBank Group Corp.’s Japanese mobile subsidiary began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday in one of the world’s biggest share offerings. Five executives each rang a bell with a ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka was named the most unfairly treated sportsperson of 2018 in a nationwide poll. Osaka, who was 20 at the time, defeated Serena Williams to win the US Open in September. It was a historic wi... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO— SoftBank Group Corp.’s Japanese mobile subsidiary has begun trading in one of the world’s biggest share offerings rivaling that of China’s Alibaba Group. Wednesday’s IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exch... ( read original story ...)

The mobile unit of Japanese tech giant Softbank has had a disappointing debut on the Tokyo stock market. The firm aims to raise up to 2.6 trillion yen ($23bn; £18bn) by selling shares at 1,500 yen eac... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's export growth slowed to a crawl in November as shipments to the United States and China weakened sharply, in a sign slowing external demand and a Sino-U.S. trade dispute ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is planning its first aircraft carrier and big increases in defence spending and weapons capability in the coming years, according to new defence guidelines approved Tuesday that cite its need t... ( read original story ...)