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Yokohama is reporting that longtime tire industry veteran and current VP of sales, Rick Phillips, is leaving the company after almost two decades to pursue other opportunities. Phillips joined Yokohama in 1999 and moved up the ranks from district sales ... ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO (Bernama) -- The biting sub-zero temperatures of Hokkaido did little to subdue the sheer excitement I felt as I travelled to its capital city of Sapporo. It was, after all, my first winter experience, and I looked forward to enjoying it in Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

Westinghouse Electric Co., Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it was 'actively considering' a sale and other strategic options for Westinghouse, as it expanded a probe into problems there that caused the parent group to miss ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, Reuters cited three sources as saying on Monday. NBC News was not immediately able to verify the report but if confirmed it would be ... ( read original story ...)

With the anniversary of the earthquake quickly approaching, along with the beginning of cherry blossom season, Sapporo has found a crisp, refreshing way to continue supporting recovery with one of the best parts of sakura viewing: drinking beer. ( read original story ...)

Saskatoon's Shelby Newkirk is at the top of her game, swimming and competing internationally with her sights set clearly on the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Newkirk just returned from a swim meet in Denmark. "Believe in yourself and don't let anything ... ( read original story ...)

Dinosaur receptionists were on standby on Wednesday as a second hotel staffed mostly by robots and automatons opened in Tokyo. Media were invited ahead of customers to check out the nine types of robots that help check guests in, clean the lobby ... ( read original story ...)

YAMAZAKI, Japan - A dim storage room surrounded by bamboo groves and pastoral hills is filled wall-to-wall with 3,000 wooden barrels. Here sleeps, for years, sometimes decades, prized Japanese whisky. The Suntory distillery in Yamazaki, near the ancient ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese people with the "spirits" of foreigners were also ... Mr Abe's poll numbers continue to slide, with Kyodo news agency reporting a six-point drop to 55.7% in the last month, and almost three-quarters of respondents calling for Mr Kagoike to answer ... ( read original story ...)

London's East End has seen its fair share of fights. But Japanese wrestler Kota Ibushi took his brawling to the next level, setting himself alight with a firework and backflipping off a car. The scenes of mayhem took place at his tag team wrestling match ... ( read original story ...)

Japan does not have any claim to the waters ... another of the sources said. Asked during a news conference about his view on the warship visit, Duterte said, without elaborating, "I have invited all of them." He added: "It is international passage ... ( read original story ...)

"Tokyo Ghoul" will to try and raise its rating and get viewers back. March 18 will be last time One Piece airs on Toonami. (Photo : Youtube/Squaller) Toonami recently made a surprising announcement on Facebook on Friday that it will end its airing of the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Troubled Japanese nuclear and electronics company Toshiba ... "We want to deal with this properly," he said at a news conference after the company won approval for a second delay in reporting its earnings for October-December. ( read original story ...)

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a management agreement with Tokyo Bay Resort Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sogo Development Co., Ltd. for a Hyatt Place hotel near Tokyo Disney Resort in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s biggest city gas supplier, Tokyo Gas said its natural gas sales during February 2017 dropped 1.5 percent compared to the corresponding month a year before. The total gas sales for the month of February reached 1.45 billion cubic meters ... ( read original story ...)

Madison Keys needed just 57 minutes to knock out Naomi Osaka in straight sets and book her spot into the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open, where Caroline Wozniacki awaits. INDIAN WELLS, CA, USA - No.9 seed Madison Keys needed just 57 minutes to knock ... ( read original story ...)