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Organizers on Friday confirmed that baseball and softball games for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be held in Fukushima, an area hit by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. The International Olympic Committee approved the use of Fukushima Azuma Baseball ... ( read original story ...)

After all the hardships that the production of the live-action movie adaptation of "Tokyo Ghoul" have endured, the movie was finally given a release date. The movie suffered some setbacks when the lead actress Fumika Shimizu suddenly announced her ... ( read original story ...)

Thursday’s news conference in Tokyo also looks to be the new secretary’s only forum for speaking to the media during this trip, and even then, he took questions from only four, pre-selected reporters. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters) - Benchmark TOCOM rubber futures held ... For the top stories in the rubber market and other news, click or MARKET NEWS * The U.S. dollar was quoted around 113.28 yen, compared with around 113.42 yen on Thursday afternoon. ( read original story ...)

In addition to keys and eyeglasses and other commonly lost objects, millions of dollars worth of cash reaches the Tokyo police’s lost and found department every year. In fact, last year people handed over a record ¥3.67 billion ($32 million) in lost ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)