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Abu Dhabi: UAE nationals can travel to Japan without visas, a senior ministry official said yesterday. Ahmad Saeed Elham Al Daheri, Assistant Under-Secretary for Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said the ... ( read original story ...)

The group includes a state-backed fund, the Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ), the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), as well as U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital and South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. Western Digital, which jointly operates ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — European shares rose in early trading Tuesday and Japan's benchmark finished higher, cheered by gains on Wall Street, but other Asian markets dipped. KEEPING SCORE: France's CAC 40 added 0.5 percent in early trading to 5,335.51. Germany's ... ( read original story ...)

Tsukiji is a valuable brand and landmark, she said at a news conference. "Our country has always valued tradition," she said. This Oct. 2, 2016 photo shows a new fish market at Toyosu in Tokyo. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Tuesday, June 20, 2017 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO The governor of Tokyo announced on Tuesday a long-delayed ... "Because we're a nation that treasures our traditional culture, I want to promote the Tsukiji brand," she told a news conference. Tsukiji draws tens of thousands of visitors a ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire Corp. and Nitro Circus are asking: do you want to “Get Trucked Up?” as part of the Yokohama Nitro Circus “Get Trucked Up Giveaway.” The grand prize is a custom-built, 2017 Ram 2500 Power Wagon Crew Cab 4×4 featuring Yokohama’s all ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's coast guard is investigating why it took nearly an hour for a deadly collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a container ship to be reported. A coast guard official said Monday they are trying to find out what the crew of the Philippine-flagged ... ( read original story ...)

But for Japan’s Crown Princess Masako ... challenge to get through each and every day with my sorrow and anxiety,” she said during a rare news conference in 2007. Struggling to adapt to demands of stuffy court officials, she has suffered on and ... ( read original story ...)

(are) the right, useful approach," Lipton told a news conference. "What's important is the maintenance of the approach that has been laid out and accompanying it with structural and fiscal agenda," he said. The IMF also called on Japan to keep its near ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese coast guard is now investigating the deadly collision ... flooded in some spaces as a result of the collision, according to the Navy. At a news conference Sunday, Vice Adm. Joseph P. Aucoin of the 7th Fleet described the damage as "extensive." ( read original story ...)

The Navy called off the search for seven missing sailors Sunday after divers found a number of bodies in the ship’s flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters, Aucoin said at a news conference at the 7th Fleet’s home base in Yokosuka ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will likely reshuffle his cabinet to try to bolster ratings battered by suspicions that he helped a friend get favoured treatment for his business, media reported. He will probably retain Finance Minister Taro Aso and ... ( read original story ...)

Japan unexpectedly slumped back into a trade deficit for the first time in four months, as soaring energy import bills offset growth in shipments abroad, government data showed Monday. A surprise deficit of ¥203 billion ($1.8 billion) logged the first red ... ( read original story ...)

The Nakagin Capsule Hotel in Tokyo opened in 1972, combining notions of futuristic existence with Japanese economic efficiency. The idea of sleeping in a pod originally captured people's imagination in the 1960s. It brought to mind space travel and ... ( read original story ...)

transcosmos inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and COO: Masataka Okuda; TSE First Section: 9715; hereafter, transcosmos) expanded one of its contact centers, 'Marketing Chain Management Center Sapporo Kitaguchi' (hereafter, MCM Center Sapporo ... ( read original story ...)

"We are sticking to the current prices as the domestic market remains at a standstill," Tokyo Steel's managing director Kiyoshi Imamura told a news conference on Monday. "But we expect the market will gradually strengthen as we are headed for a slow output ... ( read original story ...)