In this week’s news roundup, we report on Shin Ohashi and his triumph at the Asian Games. Typhoon Dujan batters Japan. Prime Minister Takaichi meets with various world leaders, including Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. And One OK Rock frontman Taka explains his Ed Sheeran message. Shin Ohas...
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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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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
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- When Katie Yamasaki looks at the New York skyline, she still misses the Twin Towers designed by her grandfather, Japanese-American
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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 opened higher Friday, buoyed by buying across a broad range of sectors, particularly artificial intelligence- and semico
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Another typhoon was moving closer to Japan from south of Okinawa on Thursday, just days after Typhoon Dujuan wreaked havoc in areas n
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TOYOTA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Japan defeated China in the men's team table tennis final Thursday at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, clinching its first gold
