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More aid pledged to survivors

Tokyo"•Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Friday with the survivors of the devastating rain that killed at least 204 people in flash flooding and...

Japan tackles cleanup as rain toll nears 200

Tokyo"•Japanese rescue workers searched the ruins of homes Thursday looking for dozens of people still missing after deadly rain that killed nearly 200 people. Operations...

Rescuers in Japan going house to house

Kurashiki, Japan"•Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that...

Scramble to rescue flood victims

Hiroshima"•The death toll from the record rain that has devastated parts of Japan rose Sunday to at least 57, officials said, as rescue workers...

Airbnb, Uber woes show Japan does not share easily

By Anne Beade Thousands of Airbnb reservations scrapped, Uber reduced to delivering food: Life is hard in Japan for giants of the sharing economy, stuck...

Japan criticizes Russia for laying cables

Tokyo—Japanese officials criticized Russia on Monday for its plans to lay fiber-optic cables to the islands disputed by Tokyo and Moscow, calling the construction...

Trump hosts Abe five days before summit with Kim

Washington"•With less than a week to go before meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, US President Donald Trump plays host Thursday to Japanese...

122 pregnant whales killed in hunt

Tokyo"•Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call “gruesome and...

Japan-UAE Business Forum

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) sits next to UAE’s Minister of Economy Sultan Bin Saeed al-Mansoori during a Japan-UAE Business Forum in Abu...

Business Forum

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and UAE’s Minister of Economy Sultan Bin Saeed al-Mansoori attend a Japan-UAE Business Forum in Abu Dhabi on April...

Trump hosts Japan’s Abe with North Korea on agenda

WASHINGTON"•US President Donald Trump hosts Japan’s Shinzo Abe at his Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday, with both men under pressure to deliver something more than bonhomie...

Sexual harassment claims hit Japan’s finance ministry

TOKYO"•Japan’s finance ministry was embroiled in a growing sexual harassment scandal on Friday after a magazine released what it said was audio of a...

A scramble to make Trump-Kim summit a reality

WASHINGTON—Senior officials staged a flurry of calls and top-level meetings on Friday as they scrambled to make a proposed nuclear summit between US President...

Xi calls for ‘smooth’ Trump-Kim talks

BEIJING"•Chinese President Xi Jinping hopes “smooth” talks between North Korea’s leader and the presidents of the United States and South Korea can produce progress...
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