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Police in Japan have arrested the son of a 91-year-old man who was found dead earlier this week in what was initially believed to be a bear attack. Fujiyoshi Shindo was found dead inside his home in ...
People have been left outraged after it emerged that Japanese firm Sony, PlayStation’s parent company, is raising the price of all PS5 consoles in the US by $50 (£37) to account for “the “challenging ...
Run by a Japanese couple, Nakayama-san and his wife Sachiko-san, the restaurant is designed to bring alive the spirit of India ...
Chef Tsuyoshi Hori says he wanted to make sure his restaurant was considerate of its neighbors and unusual location. Illustration: Sunny Wu Down a narrow flight of stairs off a nondescript stretch of ...
Nagoya, Aug. 21 (Jiji Press)--The amount of damage from fraud cases allegedly committed by a Cambodia-based group including Japanese nationals is believed to have totaled at least some 1.4 billion yen ...
TAKEHARA, Japan >> During World War II, an entire island in the Seto Inland Sea vanished from the map. It didn’t sink into the ocean. Rather, Okunoshima Island in Hiroshima prefecture was kept ...
Japanese businessman Shinsuke Sakimoto won the bidding war over Jane Birkin's original Birkin bag for $10 million. Sakimoto told CNN that the purchase "made me sick ...
Importing a car from Japan is a popular way of getting a great car not originally available in the UK. Parkers' guide breaks down how the process works.
The news platform stated that the new target--an update of a five-year 5 trillion yen investment goal rolled out in 2022--is intended to further spur investment at a time when the two countries are ...
As Japan faces a shrinking workforce, businesses and politicians are looking overseas for talent - and one of the regions they're looking to is Africa.
A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The story has not been widely recounted – until now.
Japan has pledged $5.5 billion in loans via the African Development Bank to help tackle governments on the continent’s mounting debt burdens. Tokyo has also unveiled plans to train 30,000 AI specialis ...