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By WTA Staff 2023 Osaka American teenager Ashlyn Krueger capped off a breakthrough week at the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championship by defeating No.1 seed Zhu Lin 6-3, 7-6(6) to win her first Hologic WTA Tour title. Before her week in Osaka ... ( read original story ...)

Lin Zhu (No. 35 ranking) will meet Ashlyn Krueger (No. 123) in the final of the WTA Osaka, Japan Women Singles 2023 on Saturday, September 16.Zhu is favored (-160) to win the tournament versus ( read original story ...)

Dozens of demonstrators against a divisive plan to redevelop a beloved Tokyo park are forming a human chain outside the Japanese Education Ministry to demand a revision. ( read original story ...)

The Philippine armed forces said Japan and Australia “expressed willingness” to take part in joint maritime patrols with it and the US in disputed waters. ( read original story ...)

The Asakusa Samba Carnival, a late-summer Tokyo highlight, returned Sunday following a four-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Jazz Joints documents these vibrant vinyl listening spaces – gaining traction across the globe – in a photo project, podcast and new coffee table book ... ( read original story ...)

Today there are four matches scheduled for the semifinals and the quarterfinals in the WTA Osaka, Japan Women Singles 2023, highlighted by No. 35-ranked Lin Zhu going head-to-head with No. 39 ( read original story ...)

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Third-year students at all public junior high schools in a central Tokyo ward will go abroad for their school trips starting from April 2024, with subsidies of around 500,000 ... ( read original story ...)

China is facing some economic challenges that Japan didn’t after its 1980s bubble. ( read original story ...)

Japan Post Holdings Co. is planning to convert some 20 properties it owns into mixed-development complexes in a bid to reduce reliance on financial operations, according to the Nikkei. ( read original story ...)

The video “12 things NOT to do in Japan” begins with an Englishman explaining that he did most of his reading about the country’s etiquette “on the horrific 12-hour flight between London and Tokyo, ... ( read original story ...)

Ukrainian doubles tennis player Nadiya Kichenok refused to shake hands with Russian Anna Kalinskaya after winning the WTA 250 doubles tournament in Osaka, Japan on Sept. 16. ( read original story ...)

A 33-year-old ramen died after being stabbed in his eatery in Yokohama on Friday night. According to police, the victim, Hiroki Ohashi, was found by his mother at around 7:15 p.m. at his ramen ... ( read original story ...)

Every time I visit Sapporo on business and ride the city’s subway, I am surprised that the seats marked “yusen seki” (priority seats) are invariably left unoccupied, even during rush hour. ( read original story ...)

Clearing up stadiums at World Cups had given Japan’s football fans a glowing reputation, but they also include a darker element drawn to violence and vandalism. ( read original story ...)

In the chaotic aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, the spread of false information led to the tragic military police killing of a ･･･ ... ( read original story ...)