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TOKYO -- Leaks of personal information held by companies and other organizations have surged due to unauthorized access. The compromised data ranges f
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will overhaul its tax-free shopping system for foreign visitors on Nov. 1, requiring them to pay consumption tax upfront and cl
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday proposed a compromise plan that would cut fewer Diet seats than its junior coalit
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Daiki Hashimoto of Japan soared to gold during the men's all-around final at the world gymnastics championships on Thur
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's core consumer prices in September rose 2.1 percent from a year earlier, topping the Bank of Japan's inflation goal of 2 perce
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Yomiuri Giants selected 14-year-old junior high school catcher Rentaro Seki with their fifth pick in Thursday's developmental dra
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average asking price for a used condominium in Tokyo's 23 wards in September fell 0.4 percent from August to 126.29 million yen (
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A large and very strong typhoon is moving in a northwesterly direction off Japan's southern islands, the weather agency said Friday,
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TOKYO -- At least 36 train delays have been caused by passengers' power banks catching fire across Japan over the past 10 years. Some incidents have h
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Formal dating bans have become rare in Japan's idol industry, yet reports of relationships still trigger online firestorms that expos
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SAPPORO -- The population of Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido dropped 244,342, or 4.7%, to 4,980,272 from 2020 to 2025, the largest decline of
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's largest labor union said Thursday it will demand a wage hike of around 6 percent, with a minimum of 5 percent, in next spring
