Japan

Microsoft Corp. threw down the gauntlet last week with its biggest-ever acquisition, agreeing to purchase Activision Blizzard Inc. for…
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Tokyo confirmed 14,086 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, setting a new record high as the seven-day average of daily new infections…
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The surge in people infected with the coronavirus amid the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant is causing apprehension at…
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Who is the most successful ozeki of the past decade?As of 10:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, the answer to that question is Mitakeumi.In…
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Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan has come under fire for saying on Twitter that Nippon Ishin no Kai reminds him of Germany’s wartime…
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Nagoya – Toyota Motor Corp. plans to rev up global production to a record 11 million vehicles in the next fiscal year beginning in…
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Slowdowns in the world’s two biggest economies — the United States and China — are likely to be larger than expected this year,…
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In the summer of 2008, Beijing did what seemed impossible: It brought blue skies to the notoriously smoggy city for a month as part of…
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SVITLODARSK, Ukraine – The Ukrainian soldiers watch and wait, nervously peering through a periscope from an icy trench at a forward…
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A record 327 day care centers have temporarily shut down in Japan as the coronavirus resurgence grips the country, the health ministry…
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