U.K. and Indian economies set to overtake Japan, IMF says
A weak yen and rising costs for Japanese households have India and the U.K. on course to overtake Japan in GDP next year.
A weak yen and rising costs for Japanese households have India and the U.K. on course to overtake Japan in GDP next year.
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese agriculture minister Kazuo Yana on Wednesday appeared to backtrack on his assertion that his past provision of free bus ride
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- China has told Japan's most powerful business lobby it will accept a bigger delegation than originally intended in mid-November, sour
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TOKYO -- An event featuring around 20 activities encouraging visitors to enjoy experiences without using their vision will be held Oct. 24 at a facili
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TV personality Matsuko Deluxe, 53, became the one-day chief of Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on October 7. While saying, "Our ears are touching," Ma
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YOKOSUKA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A local coast guard office in Kanagawa Prefecture is studying the use of an artificial intelligence-powered aerial drone to
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KOFU, Japan (Kyodo) -- A park near Mt. Fuji donated 8,000 moss phlox plants to a group in Yamagata Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Tuesday, so the
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major telecommunications provider NTT Inc. is considering building the first core data center for U.S. artificial intelligence startu
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended lower Wednesday as selling on elevated crude oil futures and weaker-than-expected earnings results from a Dutch ch
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TOKYO -- TELMA Ltd. designer Terumasa Nakajima has received the Newcomer's Prize and Shiseido Co.'s encouragement award at the 2026 Mainichi Fashion G
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MOSCOW (Kyodo) -- A delegation from the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang visited one of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan to con
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CHIBA -- Chiba Prefectural Police have suspended the Vietnamese-language written driver's license test after discovering the test questions had been l
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has asked Russia to promptly provide information regarding reports of the detention of a Japanese journalist on Sakhalin in the
