Japanese piano makers rethink strategies as China demand slumps
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese musical instrument makers are overhauling their piano businesses as demand in China plunges following a shift in educa
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese musical instrument makers are overhauling their piano businesses as demand in China plunges following a shift in educa
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SAITAMA -- A 43-year-old man got a suspended prison sentence in September. The court said he made trouble at Hama-sushi, a big sushi shop chain. He fi
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ATLANTA/MOSCOW (Kyodo) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi called during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Friday for
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major restaurant chain operator Skylark Holdings Co. is planning to open its first ghost kitchen in central Tokyo, seeking to capture
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FUKUOKA -- A zoo in this southwestern Japan city marked 30 years of caring for the endangered Tsushima leopard cat by celebrating the birth of a femal
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Right before my 26th birthday, I made the decision to uproot my life in the American countryside and move to one of the world's most densely populated
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- All Nippon Airways Co. said Friday that personal data, including passport numbers, was leaked from about 37,800 customers following u
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan said Friday that underlying inflation has "generally" reached its 2 percent target, nearly 14 years after the goal
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Friday stressed the need to stabilize inflation at around 2 percent, signaling that the central
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. and Waymo LLC, the self-driving vehicle unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., said Friday they will launch a trial
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's anime market reached 4.45 trillion yen ($28 billion) in 2025, topping 4 trillion yen for the first time on strong overseas sa
