Tokyo stocks rise, Nikkei up 2%, on further AI development hopes
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock index briefly up over 2 percent, lifted by artificial intelligence- and semiconduc
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock index briefly up over 2 percent, lifted by artificial intelligence- and semiconduc

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TOKYO -- Liquor tax changes taking effect Oct. 1 will unify Japan's tax rates for beer, "happoshu" low-malt beer and beer-like drinks known as "third-
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MITO, Japan (Kyodo) -- The mayor of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, said Wednesday it will accept a preliminary survey that the industry min
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NAGASAKI -- Amid an increasing number of foreign residents in this southwest Japan city, the local fire department has held a life-saving training ses
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court ruled Wednesday that voices are protected as a publicity right, similar to portrait rights, in the first such ruling
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KOBE -- One person died and another was left wounded after they were found collapsed on streets in different wards of the western Japan city of Kobe o
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Japan, the United States and Europe are increasingly pouring enormous subsidies into their own industries and stepping up efforts to support them. Exc
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday morning, lifted by artificial intelligence- and semiconductor-related shares on hopes for further growth
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On September 27, the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, where yokozuna Onosato, 26, won his sixth c
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KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived in Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Wednesday to meet with people a
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YOKOHAMA -- Former Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka formally announced his candidacy on Sept. 29 for the Oct. 18 rerun mayoral election, with campaign
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TOKYO -- Uber Japan, Japan Post Co. and others announced on Sept. 29 that they will launch a service allowing people to book public ride-sharing at po
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government is set to submit to the Diet a bill to mandate disclosure of so-called beneficial ownership of legal entities
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