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The Liberals' election platform promises to "save home mail delivery." OF FREE TRADE WITH JAPAN In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, as Trudeau was consorting with the rich and famous in Davos and the bulk of Canada's trade negotiators were holed up in ... ( read original story ...)

Maeda, 21, won last year’s Hokkaido Marathon in 2:28:48. She made her debut in Osaka last year, finishing 12 th with 2:32:19. In December she improved her half marathon time by nearly two and a half minutes to 1:10:22; her goal for Sunday is to crack 2:26. ( read original story ...)

US retail giant Walmart will team up with Japan's Rakuten to launch a new online grocery delivery service. Customers will place orders through Rakuten, which will then be fulfilled by the joint venture. The operation - to launch later this year - will ... ( read original story ...)

reports TBS News (Jan. 26). At just past 2:00 p.m., Hideyoshi Okamura, a resident of Nagoya’s Mizuho Ward, came up from behind the doctor, 42, inside an examination room of a surgical department at the Fujita Health University Banbuntane Hotokukai ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a very rare low temperature advisory for capital Tokyo as cold air started affecting the country on Wednesday, January 24, 2018. This is the first such warning for Tokyo in 33 years, officials said, adding the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's ambulance service has experienced its busiest day in more than 80 years, officials said Thursday, amid icy conditions as the Japanese capital shivers through its coldest temperatures in decades. The Tokyo fire department, which runs the ambulance ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – The Japanese government opened a small museum Thursday displaying maps and documents to defend its territorial claims against neighbors South Korea and China. The Japanese minister in charge of territorial issues, Tetsuma Esaki, said it was ... ( read original story ...)

According to Kyodo News, three military helicopters made emergency landings ... US Defence Secretary James Mattis apologised to Japan, his Japanese counter-part Itsunori Onodera told reporters. Okinawa hosts the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan yet ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he would attend the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea next month, after reports he would not attend due to a dispute over “comfort women” forced to work in Japan’s wartime ... ( read original story ...)

KAWASAKI, Japan — There was a putrid smell emanating from the apartment. There was an obvious brown stain on the futon where the body had been. The futon, the clothes, the newspapers and horse-racing stubs were covered with maggots and flies. Still ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo saw its heaviest snowfall in four years on Monday ... The Weather Company’s primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese tech start-up is preparing to offer out-of-this-world space fireworks for deep-pocketed customers, with a “meteor shower on demand” service slated to launch in 2019. Astro Live Experience says its Sky Canvas project will position multiple ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he would attend the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea next month, after reports he would not attend due to a dispute over "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime military ... ( read original story ...)

When visibility improved about 10 minutes later, he found several fellow soldiers fallen to the ground, Kyodo News reported. The four civilian ... Mount Kusatsu-Shirane erupted around 10 a.m. The Japan Meteorological Agency has since banned access to ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Meteorological Agency has since banned access to the ... "I was scared to death," a 71-year-old man from Tokyo who was riding in the gondola told the Kyodo News. The man said the gondola was halted for about 30 minutes and two stones smashed ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he wanted to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in to convey Japan's stance on the two countries' 2015 agreement on "comfort women", confirming his plans to attend the ... ( read original story ...)