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At Dentsu, a 24-year-old woman killed herself after putting in 100 hours of overtime. A government spokesman told Bloomberg News that Japan needs to “end the norm of long working hours so people can balance their lives with things like raising a child or ... ( read original story ...)

Vancouver resident Anthony Casey has never shopped at Muji, the Japanese houseware store known for its smart ... The retailer said response to the news of its temporary store has been so "extraordinary" it had to create system for shoppers to reserve ... ( read original story ...)

New Zealand will express its "significant disappointment" to Japan over the country's whaling in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Bill English says. "I think our view is pretty well known and we would take the same sort of view as Australia on this ... ( read original story ...)

A family of four believed to be from Australia has been rescued after becoming lost on a ski resort in central Japan, where they survived the night reportedly inside a hole they dug in the snow. Police said Tuesday that the family — a woman in her 50s ... ( read original story ...)

Osaka's tenacity surfaced in the next two sets as the hard-hitting Japanese teenager, born to a Haitian father and Japanese mother, managed to reach the second round for the second straight year. To have fuller access to the Kyodo News website, it is ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA – The lawyers for a 21-year-old woman on trial for strangling an elderly woman in 2014 and attempting to kill two high school students in 2012 said she should not be found guilty because she lacks the ability “to tell right from wrong.” “I h ... ( read original story ...)

whose body was found at their home in Osaka City almost a month after he died, police said on Friday. Tsuneko Akiyama, 72, was arrested for illegally withdrawing 20,000 yen from the account of her 88-year-old roommate in October, Nippon News Network ... ( read original story ...)