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The poll conducted over the weekend found 51.7 percent of respondents hope the Games in 2021 are postponed again or cancelled, while 46.3 percent want to see the rescheduled Olympics go ahead. Among ... ( read original story ...)

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd 4502.T> said on Monday it anticipates an operating loss of about $200 million related to Novartis AG's decision to withdraw a marketing application for the dry-eye drug ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese retail sales shed 12.3% in May from a year earlier, compared with a median market forecast for an 11.6% decline, government data showed on Monday. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Retail sales in Japan tumbled at a double-digit pace for the second straight month in May as the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures delivered a heavy blow to consumer ... ( read original story ...)

It is meant to be the fastest, most sophisticated railway ever built, whisking passengers from Tokyo to Osaka in just 67 minutes. But the world’s first magnetic levitation mainline has one big problem ... ( read original story ...)

While the attacks definitely made an impression, they did not offer the Navy a long-term strategic role for its battlefleet. ( read original story ...)

Almost two months after a payout of 100,000 yen ($926) was approved for coronavirus relief, only 3.4 percent of residents in Osaka have received the lump sum payouts, the highest delay seen across ... ( read original story ...)

From Hokkaido to Okinawa, hotels and other accomodation facilities are limiting contact and taking other pandemic-related measures to encourage visitors to stay. ( read original story ...)

Maria Ortiz reacts while kneeling beside the body of her partner Jose Holguin, 50, originally from the Dominican Republic and who died of complications related to the coronavirus disease, during a vie ... ( read original story ...)

A 13-year-old girl was hit and killed by an express train in Yokohama on Friday night. According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:35 p.m. at Futamagawa Station on the Sotetsu Line in Asahi ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of both Osaka Prefecture University and Osaka City University in western Japan on June 26 announced a new public university comb ... ( read original story ...)

Yu Miri's novel, about a homeless man who dies and finds the afterlife much bleaker than he expected, is both mournful and angry, emphasizing the unfairness of poverty with painful contrasts. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday said that 57 new cases of Covid-19 infections had been confirmed in the capital, the highest single-day count since the state of emergency was lifted on ... ( read original story ...)

Japan wants to usher in a new era of high-speed public transport with magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains, but the billion-dollar mammoth project for the first Tokyo-Nagoya line ... ( read original story ...)

Central Japan Railway Co is expected to announce soon a decision to delay its planned opening in 2027 of a high-speed maglev train line between Tokyo and Nagoya, sources familiar with the matter say, ... ( read original story ...)

Two 13-year-old girls were hit and killed by an express train in Yokohama on Friday night. According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:35 p.m. at Futamagawa Station on the Sotetsu Line in ... ( read original story ...)