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Japanese officials celebrated Friday after the city of Osaka was awarded the right to host World Expo 2025 – events that have provided the world such wonders as the Eiffel Tower and the Ferris ... ( read original story ...)

Members of Japanese delegation with Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura, second right, Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko, center, and Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui second ... ( read original story ...)

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the choice of host city for the 2025 World Expo (all times local): 5 p.m. Japan's Osaka has won the right to host the 2025 World Expo, beating out cities in Russia and Azerb... ( read original story ...)

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the choice of host city for the 2025 World Expo (all times local): 5 p.m. Japan's Osaka has won the right to host the 2025 World Expo, beating out cities in Russia and Azerb... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Osaka officials capped a last-minute round of personal lobbying efforts in Paris to win the 2025 World Expo, which will be decided Friday. While convinced that Osaka has the superior technical ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire has notified NHTSA of the need to recall one size of the RY023 commercial tire. The 295/75R22.5 14G, part number 02396, was manufactured at Yokohama’s plant in West Point, Mississippi wi... ( read original story ...)

6:15 p.m. Tokyo prosecutors have offered few details into their case against Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn. At a news conference Thursday, the deputy chief prosecutor Shin Kukimoto, told repo... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese prosecutors are likely to build a new criminal case against ousted Nissan Motor (7201.T) Chairman Carlos Ghosn for understating his remuneration by 3 billion yen ($27.0 mill... ( read original story ...)

PARIS -- Cities in Russia, Japan and Azerbaijan are vying to host the 2025 World Expo, an event expected to draw millions of visitors and showcase their local culture. The Paris-based Bureau Internati... ( read original story ...)

China's biggest online travel agency Ctrip has inked a strategic cooperation agreement with Yokohama to boost the appeal of the Japanese city to global travelers, Chinese in particular. The two sides ... ( read original story ...)

When 17-year-old Lee Yong-soo returned home to South Korea in 1945 after years as a child sex slave for Japanese troops, her family, having given her up for dead, thought she was a ghost. ( read original story ...)

OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Japanese private wealth management company, Yokohama Daisan Management, has commented on the recent initial public offering developments of Tencent Chinese-b... ( read original story ...)

6:15 p.m. Tokyo prosecutors have offered few details into their case against Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn. At a news conference Thursday, the deputy chief prosecutor Shin Kukimoto, told repo... ( read original story ...)

15 p.m. Tokyo prosecutors have offered few details into their case against Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn. At a news conference Thursday, the deputy chief prosecutor Shin Kukimoto, told report... ( read original story ...)

Koichi Kodama, a lawyer, said the bureau’s response to the graffiti was “childish”, according to the news agency. A user professing to be a supporter of Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, speculated ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo 2020 vice-president Toshiaki Endo, Japan's former Olympics minister, was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying the organising committee would formally propose the marathon time changes to the IO... ( read original story ...)