Leasehold condominiums draw attention in Tokyo as housing costs soar
TOKYO -- Rising land prices and soaring condominium costs are drawing growing attention to fixed-term leasehold condominiums in Tokyo, which allow res
TOKYO -- Rising land prices and soaring condominium costs are drawing growing attention to fixed-term leasehold condominiums in Tokyo, which allow res
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended mixed Thursday, with investors catching up with gains in artificial intelligence-related shares made during Japan'
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Talks between Japan's ruling and opposition parties on the House of Representatives electoral system are continuing. The parties intend to reach a con
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will monitor the upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the United States "wi
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KANUMA, Tochigi -- The municipal government here has added a package featuring a "thrilling suspension bridge" walk and a zip line ride near the Nanma
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- SoftBank Group Corp. said Thursday it will raise $11.1 billion to finance the final tranche of a $30 billion investment in OpenAI.The
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Convenience store sales in Japan rose 0.3 percent in August from a year earlier, marking the second straight month of increase, helpe
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NAGOYA, Japan (AP) -- Shin Ohashi of Japan set a world record in the 200-meter breaststroke on Thursday at the Asian Games, swimming a time of 2 minut
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's indirect defense of the International Criminal Court in her U.N. General Assembly debut expo
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Optical lattice clocks developed by a Japanese scientist have emerged as a leading candidate in discussions by an international body
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Onosato kept his two-win lead at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday as ozeki Aonishiki, new sekiwake Fujinokawa an
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CHIBA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The death toll from Typhoon Dujuan, which barreled by eastern Japan earlier this week, rose to 11 on Thursday, local authoriti
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False and misleading information and defamatory attacks on social media during elections in Japan are becoming an increasingly serious problem. Rather
