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Twenty million train rides are taken daily in the Tokyo. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of employees in Tokyo will work from home for two weeks as part of a trial of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko said on Tuesday it was "regrettable" that the South Korean government had made what he said was an erroneous explanation after the two sides ... ( read original story ...)

“If the investigation concludes that our government has done nothing wrong, Japan should immediately withdraw its retaliatory export restrictions,” Kim You-geun, a senior South Korean national ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA - Hakuho suffered his first loss of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, as fellow yokozuna Kakuryu kept his spotless record to take the sole lead. In the penultimate match of Day 9 at ... ( read original story ...)

Similar polls taken by other media outlets, including the Kyodo news agency, showed support for ... bloc and other smaller parties including the Japan Innovation Party, which support ... ( read original story ...)

Making their debut in 2015, the troupe holds weekend performances at Nagoya Castle, drawing crowds of local visitors and overseas tourists with gravity-defying stunts, martial arts and swordsmanship. ... ( read original story ...)

told reporters as he was leaving Japan on Saturday. In response, Iwamatsu, director of METI's trade control policy division, told a hastily arranged news conference: "We've checked the record of the ... ( read original story ...)

The Hayabusa2 space probe on Thursday successfully completed a second landing on the asteroid Ryugu after its first landing in February, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said. ... ( read original story ...)

Feuding Japan and South Korea have traded further barbs, with Tokyo accusing Seoul of mischaracterising earlier ... to withdraw the export curbs in the Friday talks, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported ... ( read original story ...)

A survey by the Japan News Network (JNN) released this week showed that 58% of voters backed the export curbs, compared with 24% who were opposed. But the top issues in the election are worries ... ( read original story ...)

Remixpoint said its subsidiary BITPoint Japan discovered overnight that about 3.5 billion yen ($32.3 million) in various digital currencies had gone missing from its management. The apparent hack was ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has reported a hack causing the loss of 3.5 billion yen, or US$32 million, worth of virtual money. Tokyo-based Remixpoint, which runs the BITPoint exchange ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The Latest on a trade spat between South Korea and Japan (all times local): 3 p.m. Japanese and South Korean officials are meeting in Tokyo to discuss Japan's tightening of ... ( read original story ...)

with all 47 prefectures seeing a rise in the figure as companies are turning to people from overseas to deal with a severe labor shortage amid Japan's rapidly graying population and declining ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL, Korea, -- Republic Of South Korea is seeking U.S. help in a bitter diplomatic row with fellow American ally Japan over its moves to tighten controls on high-tech exports. The government said ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's space agency said data transmitted from the Hayabusa2 ... Takashi Kubota, a Hayabusa2 project member at JAXA, was beaming when he showed up at an unexpectedly early news conference to ... ( read original story ...)