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Not a single one is from Japan, its own backyard. That may be because the pickings are slim: While the U.S. has 179 unicorns, China 93, and India 18, Japan has just two, according to CB Insights. How ... ( read original story ...)

The bad news is that — despite a last-minute change ... Demand is being driven by the 35 million people who live in Greater Tokyo, and is in sharp contrast to the last Olympics in Rio de Janeiro ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japan’s culture of cute makes no exceptions for poop. It gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama near Tokyo. Here, the poop is artificial, nothing like what would be in a ... ( read original story ...)

When you think of the Nagoya tournament what first comes to mind? For many it’s something like the scene in “Fight Club” where the narrator tries not to think of the words “searing” or “flesh.” No ... ( read original story ...)

Any discussion of who will emerge victorious in Nagoya this month has to start with the veteran yokozuna, but rather than an era defined by a rivalry, we are now deep into sumo’s version of the ... ( read original story ...)

Both sides showed no signs of backing down in the trade dispute. Kyodo News Agency reported on Tuesday that Japan was considering expanding its export controls to more items bound for South Korea. ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Overwhelmed by unprecedented demand ... let down last month when they came away empty-handed in a lottery for next year's Olympics. The bad news is that - despite a last-minute change of plans ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese authorities have urged more than one million people across the Japanese Island of Kyushu to evacuate due to heavy rain which poses a threat to life. Residents in parts of Kagoshima and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Chunks of meat from the first whales caught since Japan resumed commercial whaling this week have fetched "celebration prices" at auction. The meat sold Thursday for up to 15,000 yen ($140) ... ( read original story ...)

Abe is also highlighting his call to revise the post-war constitution to further legitimize Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF), as its military is known. "We have pledged in our party platform to ... ( read original story ...)

Yonhap News reported, citing a government official. The U.S. helped broker the 1965 treaty establishing ties between Japan and South Korea that included a payment from Tokyo of about $300 million ... ( read original story ...)

“We can play an honest broker in the Middle East, as we have no colonial history or negative footprint in the region,” he told Arab News in a wide-ranging interview at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese authorities on Wednesday directed more than 1 million residents in parts of the southern main island of Kyushu to evacuate to designated shelters as heavy rains batter the region, ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s southern city of Kagoshima on Wednesday ordered its nearly 600,000 residents to take shelter in evacuation centres and other safe areas as torrential rains threatened landslides and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday that Japan cannot give South Korean exports preferential treatment because the country is not abiding by an agreement regarding wartime issues that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - With the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics a little over a year away, the National Stadium, set to be the centerpiece of the Games, is 90% completed and will open its doors for the ... ( read original story ...)