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The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...
Analysts at Bank of America said that the Japan deal "looks like a reasonable blueprint" for other auto-exporting countries ...
Four of Tokyo's best hotels for a swish city break - Tokyo is a city full of luxury hotels — so which ones stand out from the ...
Among the sea of saffron on the Kanwar Yatra trail to Haridwar, one figure stands apart — Hoshi Takayuki, a 41-year-old ...
Against a backdrop of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States with Israel over the former's nuclear facilities ...
A single 25-year-old needs a minimum of just under 300,000 yen (about $2,030) to live a modest but ordinary life in the ...
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the United States. It’s an astonishing figure, but still subject to ...
Time has stood still on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Life building across the moat from Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Behind heavy wooden doors lies an office, preserved since 1945, that houses the desk ...
Japan requires people changing their gender to have genitalia resembling those of the target gender. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Kōtoku-in, selected by Travel + Leisure as one of Japan’s most stunning temples, is one of the biggest tourist draws in town, thanks to its 36-foot-tall bronze statue of Amitābha Buddha from the 13th ...
Nishijinori, the intricate weaving technique for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan’s ancient ...
TOKYO: Three drones were detected in a Japanese nuclear power plant where two reactors are being decommissioned, the ...