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For the second year running, the best paratriathletes from around the world will compete in the ITU World Paratriathlon Series this weekend, with the first event of the revamped calendar taking place on Saturday in the Japanese city of Yokohama. ( read original story ...)

The agreement concludes the countries’ decade-long negotiations on the communication mechanism, which had stalled after the island row escalated in 2012 when Tokyo nationalized the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which China calls Diaoyu. ( read original story ...)

“The three countries will take leadership to achieve peace and prosperity in the Northeast Asia,” Abe told a joint news conference in Tokyo, with Li and Moon standing on both sides, all wearing almost identical blue neckties. Abe said the three ... ( read original story ...)

bringing together Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. "The three countries will take leadership to achieve peace and prosperity in the Northeast Asia," Abe told a joint news conference in ... ( read original story ...)

bringing together Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. "The three countries will take leadership to achieve peace and prosperity in the Northeast Asia," Abe told a joint news conference in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — The head of Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. said Wednesday it has reached an agreement to sell its stake in Indian e-commerce company Flipkart to Walmart. Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son did not give details in confirming ... ( read original story ...)

She never came. She had been kidnapped, and he’s never seen her since. “I have no memory [of her],” Iizuka told ABC News. His mother, Yaeko Taguchi, is one of several Japanese citizens allegedly abducted by North Korea in the 1970s to teach top North ... ( read original story ...)

Moon met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday shortly after a three-way meeting in Tokyo with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. A Japanese official says Moon and Abe agreed to work together to figure out the necessary steps for North Korea to give up ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is reporting its quarterly profit rose 21 percent as cost cuts and booming sales in some markets offset the damage from higher U.S. incentives. Toyota, which makes the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models, on ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — The rapidly evolving situation on the Korean Peninsula and U.S. threats to free trade were likely agenda items as China, Japan and South Korea sat down Wednesday for their first trilateral summit in more than two years. The meeting comes ... ( read original story ...)

"We must lead the ongoing momentum toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and achieve peace and stability in Northeast Asia," Abe told a joint news conference in Tokyo. Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura said the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in Japan on Wednesday to join leaders from Japan and China in a summit that is expected to focus on North Korea's nuclear program and on improving the sometimes-frayed ties among the three northeast ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea met in Tokyo on Wednesday in a powerful gesture of solidarity against the backdrop of historic diplomatic moves by North Korea and a push for the isolated country to give up its nuclear weapons. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese workers’ inflation-adjusted real wages rose for the first time in four months in March, government data showed, in a sign of a gradual increase in salaries that should help stimulate consumer spending. The data will be ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japanese drugmaker Takeda has agreed to buy Shire ... The share price in both companies rose on the news — Shire’s by 4 percent to 40.16 pounds, and Takeda’s by the same rate to 4,638 yen. Takeda obtained a $31 billion bridge loan to ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo’s subway system is famed for its cleanliness and efficiency but also its carriage-busting crowds, and a crush of visitors for the 2020 Olympics could paralyse it, a new study has warned. Professor Azuma Taguchi of Tokyo’s Chuo University used a ... ( read original story ...)