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TOKYO: Tokyo stocks opened lower on Monday, extending falls on Wall Street where sentiment worsened after Russia said it would keep a key gas pipeline to Germany offline. The benchmark Nikkei 225 ... ( read original story ...)

Four people were rushed to hospital following a bus carrying high school students and a mini-vehicle colliding in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture on Monday, local media reported. According to emergency ... ( read original story ...)

Nuclear power could play an important part in helping Japan become self-sufficient, according to Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura. ( read original story ...)

Toyota will suspend Monday night shift production starting at 9 p.m. (1200 GMT) and cancel Tuesday morning production at three factories in the western prefecture of Fukuoka. The automaker expects to ... ( read original story ...)

Only for Tokyoites, the promotion includes hotels and resorts in Tokyo, Nikko, Izu, Fukushima and other popular destinations ... ( read original story ...)

A high school bus and a mini-vehicle have collided in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. Four people were rushed to hospital. ( read original story ...)

The government of western Japan's Wakayama Prefecture will agree on a settlement with a man over an intimidating police interrogation, whe ... ( read original story ...)

Kathy Matsui leads one such firm, MPower Partners, which she recently started in Tokyo with two female partners, Yumiko Murakami and Seki Miwa. A former vice chair of investment b ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan's services sector activity shrank for the first time in five months in August as a resurgence of COVID-19 infections hurt demand, a business survey showed. The contraction shows that a re ... ( read original story ...)

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive arrested in a bribery case, may have been paid by an advertising company seeking favor for one of its client companies during ... ( read original story ...)

The COVID-19 situation continues to ease worldwide with a 20% weekly drop in cases and a 17% decline in deaths to rage in Japan and South Korea with 41% of the infections. ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA--A man posing as a police officer made off with about 10 million yen ($71,400) in cash and 1.5 kilograms in gold bullion worth 12 million yen or so after conning an elderly woman in Chiryu, ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said it confirmed 9,635 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday. The figure decreased 6,199 from a week ago, marking 14 straight days of week-on-week decline. Our site ... ( read original story ...)

Cities in eastern China suspended ferry services and classes and flights were canceled in Japan on Sunday as Typhoon Hinnamnor, the strongest global storm this year, blew its way past Taiwan and the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan views tensions in the Taiwan Strait as ‘seriously destabilising’ to its own security as it relies on an open strait for safe passage of goods. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo confirmed 9,635 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, down by about 6,200 from a week earlier, as the the capital continues to see a downtrend in new infections. This was the first time in about two ... ( read original story ...)