In this week’s news roundup, we report on Kozo Tashima’s bid to unseat Gianni Infantino as FIFA president. A stolen Audemars Piguet watch is returned to the shop it was taken from with an apology note. Tokyo watches nervously after Donald Trump’s crushing defeat in the US midterm elections, amid...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's industry ministry on Friday ordered Chubu Electric Power Co. to improve operations following its manipulation of seismic data
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A year after ties with China went into a tailspin over remarks by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on how Japan might respond to a crisi
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan should strengthen its economic and fiscal base to prepare for the event of a national security crisis, the Finance Ministry sai
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- SMBC Consumer Finance Co. said Thursday that personal information of up to 320,000 customers had been leaked following unauthorized a
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's real wages in September rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier, marking the ninth consecutive month of growth, government data
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Kozo Tashima, honorary president of the Japan Football Association, said Thursday he intends to run for the FIFA presidency in the Ma
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index tumbled in early trading Friday and fell below the 60,000 line for the first time since May, tracking overnigh
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan manager Hajime Moriyasu will leave his role by the end of the year as the Asian Cup scheduled for early next year in Saudi Arab
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TAIPEI (Kyodo) -- Search and rescue workers found two bodies Thursday at one of Japanese firm Panasonic Holdings Corp.'s production facilities in nort
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government is considering explicitly stating an exception to its long-standing non-nuclear principles in an updated secu
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HIROSHIMA -- Shimizudani Shrine in this western Japan city has received a new large "ema" votive plaque depicting Empress Jingu in a more peaceful sce
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nearly a century after his death, George Masa, a Japanese immigrant photographer who played a key role in establishing the U.S. most
