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TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States and Japan are making final arrangements to hold their first bilateral trade talks in Washington on Aug. 9, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday. U.S. ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's central bank on Tuesday kept its policy steady as widely expected. The big news out of the central bank is that it would make its policy framework more flexible for the long-term yield target. ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said on Monday it had picked Lockheed Martin Corp ... according to a Ministry of Defence news release. Other outlays, including for missile launchers, interceptors, buildings a... ( read original story ...)

Australia is forming a new infrastructure partnership with the United States and Japan, amid rising concerns of Chinese influence ... all of the initiatives in the region," Mr Ciobo told Sky News on T... ( read original story ...)

The good news for Japan is that the yen is weaker, which has helped exporters. And while it’s hard to separate causation from correlation, deflation is no longer a persistent threat and the Japanese e... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Joining the worldwide movement to combat plastic waste, two international hotels in Osaka are moving toward paper straws. “We switched to paper straws on July 1, and the response from our cust... ( read original story ...)

A coach from AC Milan has been training members of the soccer team at Nagoya International Junior and Senior High School since April. Although the soccer club, which is part of the top Italian league ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced today that the results of joint research projects conducted since 2013 with two universities in Thailand, a major producer of natural rubber, were recent... ( read original story ...)

Japan and the European Union organized the meeting for Tuesday in Geneva, where vice and deputy ministers from Canada, the EU, Japan and South Korea will gather to talk about the punishing levies thre... ( read original story ...)

Japan and the European Union organized the meeting for Tuesday in Geneva, where vice and deputy ministers from Canada, the EU, Japan and South Korea will gather to talk about the punishing levies thre... ( read original story ...)

Financial support for this research came from Takata Foundation. The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Nagoya University, "Focusing on cases where the car and cyclist approac... ( read original story ...)

A tropical storm in Japan disrupted transportation and knocked out power to thousands of homes in its path as it headed west toward a region still recovering from devastating rains earlier this month. ... ( read original story ...)

"In recent days Tokyo and Japan [have] been like a sauna," said Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, calling the issue a major challenge in a July 23 news conference. She then laid out countermeasures that in... ( read original story ...)

People in Osaka were greeted with a spectacular sight when the sun went down on July 25. As the Japanese endure one of the hottest summer seasons to hit their country, people in Osaka were given a bri... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A tropical storm in Japan disrupted transportation and knocked out power to thousands of homes in its path as it headed west toward a region still recovering from devastating rains earlier th... ( read original story ...)

Greetings from Osaka and another edition of Where I’m At; a monthly update of what I’ve been up to and general site news. There are no direct flights from Luang Prabang to Saigon so I opted to stay in ... ( read original story ...)