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TOKYO— Cheers in South Korea and a one-page “extra” edition of a Japanese newspaper have greeted the unprecedented summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Trump became the first sitting American president to meet a North Korean leader Tuesday ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka was forced to come from behind in her first match of the grass-court season as she beat Sachia Vickery in three sets at the Nottingham Open. Osaka has enjoyed a breakthrough year, defeating Serena Williams, Simona Halep, Karolina Pliskova ... ( read original story ...)

Photograph: Kyodo/Reuters A Japanese man who was freed in 2014 after spending 45 ... “It is all lies,” he said, according to Kyodo news. His 85-year-old sister, Hideko, who has campaigned to prove her brother’s innocence, said the high court ruling ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—The Japan Tourism Agency on Monday defended its handling of a new law that has led to thousands of Airbnb cancellations, saying the U.S. company had ample warning that unlicensed hosts wouldn’t be permitted to operate starting June 15. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to introduce "solar roads" that collect energy from the sun via solar panels installed beneath the surface of the roads. The effort is aimed at promoting Tokyo as an eco-friendly city, both domestically and abroad ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese flea market app operator Mercari Inc’s IPO is raising up to $1.2 billion in the nation’s biggest such share sale so far this year, as the firm seeks to replicate its domestic success overseas, especially in the money-losing U ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s core machinery orders in April jumped the most since the start of 2016, reversing the prior month’s decline and raising some hopes for durable growth in capital expenditure seen as crucial for a recovery in the economy after a ... ( read original story ...)

Businesses in Tokyo are looking to get foreign visitors spending their time and cash on the city's wide-ranging nightlife options. Travel agencies are arranging special events for foreign tourists such as Japanese taiko drum performances, while hotels are ... ( read original story ...)

“With the comeback of Tun Dr Mahathir, I’m sure our industries will be very delighted to think positively of their engagement with Malaysia and its industries,” Makio Miyagawa, Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia told state news agency Bernama. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo metropolitan government intends to take the initiative in introducing the new technologies of "solar roads" that collect energy from the sun via solar panels installed beneath the surface of roads and "power-generating floors" that generate ... ( read original story ...)

Interviewed by Japan News Agency, an unnamed official declared that “in order to advance the decommissioning, the number of tanks should be decreased at an early date”. Since 2011, the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant has been leaking small amounts ... ( read original story ...)

a local police spokesman told AFP news agency. Mr Kojima told police he had picked victims at random and had been armed with "multiple bladed objects" on the train, Japanese broadcaster NHK reports. Witnesses said passengers were in tears as they attempted ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a yakuza boss over the alleged extortion of a former gang member last year, reports TBS News (June 6). In July, Yoshinori Hirabayashi, the 72-year-old chairman of a gang affiliated with the Kobe ... ( read original story ...)

On a desolate stretch of Japan's north-western coast lies a wrecked, wooden fishing boat with weather-beaten Korean characters near the bow. 'Ghost ships' are so named because they often appear on beaches empty, or only with skeletal remains In the last ... ( read original story ...)

Kohama, Japan (CNN)It's baking hot in Okinawa ... she looks it up on her map. "When I saw the news about [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un's brother being killed in Malaysia, I didn't know where that was, so I looked it up immediately," she said ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - In dozens of conversations, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has counseled President Donald Trump to avoid making concessions to North Korea that could upset East Asia's balance of power, including a military retreat from South Korea ... ( read original story ...)