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Protests and Beijing clampdown seen as opportunity to promote Japanese capital as alternative financial centre ... ( read original story ...)

Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet rose by nine percentage points to 36% despite the recent arrest of his former justice minister on suspicion of vote-buying, a poll by ... ( read original story ...)

As Yuriko Koike gears up for re-election in the Tokyo gubernatorial race, comparisons are being drawn between her and Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura. ( read original story ...)

Osaka voters will once again face a referendum on merging the city’s 24 wards following a decision Friday on a plan that would create four large, semiauton ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Japanese Steak House, which specializes in hibachi cooking, is set to open soon in the new Publix-anchored Holland Point with two other ... ( read original story ...)

Treating a rare type of malignant lung cancer could improve, thanks to near-infrared irradiation and a cancer-targeting compound. Nagoya University oncologist Kazuhide Sato and colleagues tested the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan opened its professional regular season Friday without fans in attendance. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO -- Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not -- play ball. After a three ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Yokohama have arrested a 26-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed another man following an argument over a traffic matter. According to police, the ... ( read original story ...)

Eilish McColgan is "excited" to go for the distance double at the Tokyo Olympics - 30 years after mother Liz won 10,000m world gold in the same city. ( read original story ...)

Canada's wheelchair basketball program will go into Tokyo with a different team than it qualified with due to new eligibility policies put in place by the sport's organizing bodies. ( read original story ...)

Baby Shark” blared from the speakers at the Tokyo Dome when Gerardo Parra stepped to the plate in the second inning on Friday, as Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball leagued opened its shortened ... ( read original story ...)

CNBC's Jim Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street" that support from the U.S. central bank was supporting stocks that might otherwise plunge. ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan lifted a virus-related ban on domestic travel on Friday. He also said concerts and other events could be held with some restrictions. ( read original story ...)

A research group at Nagoya University has developed a new technology that can drastically conserve the energy used to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the greenhouse gases, from facilities such as ... ( read original story ...)

All games in Japan will be played without fans until at least July. The league has also revised the schedule to limit travel. ( read original story ...)

After a three-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the world's second-most famous baseball league opened a season Friday that will be shortened from its regular 143 games to 120. That's ... ( read original story ...)