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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has indeed nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. That reports the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which is based on anonymous...

A hotel chain in Japan has sent out more than a hundred staff. Striking: the redundant employees are all robots.

A 278 kilogram bluefin tuna was sold at the Tokyo fish market at the first auction of the year for a record price of 2.7 million euros. The buyer is Kiyoshi Kimura, the owner of the...

Emperor Akihito of Japan spoke his latest New Year's greetings from the balcony of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday for a record number of 154,800 people.

Despite international criticism, the Japanese government has again ordered two death sentences. Japanese media report this Thursday referring to well-informed sources.

The tensions between Moscow and Tokyo threaten to grow rapidly, after Moscow announced that they would be stationing thousands of additional soldiers on two of the four Kuril Islands that Stalin had in 1945...

Vladimir Putin taking an ice bath, cuddling a dog or playing ice hockey. A calendar with photos of the Russian president is a rage in Japan, especially among women.

The new Japanese Minister of Cyber ​​Security Yoshitaka Sakurada has made a remarkable confession: he has never used a computer. During a parliamentary hearing, he indicated that he has staff for jobs that require a PC.

A passenger who complained that he wanted to sit in the airplane at the window was served by a smart stewardess.

Working in the City of London demands the utmost of people- trainees at a law firm have again experienced last week. Their boss sent them an e-mail on Friday at a quarter to five with the question if they could work through the night. Those who refused, had to provide 'proof' to legitimize the failure.

The heavy typhoon Trami has killed at least two people in Japan. According to local media, about a hundred people were injured and as many as 750,000 households spread across the country without power.

Government agencies in Japan seem to be wobbling on a large scale with figures about disabled people they employ. After internal investigation, the Japanese government concludes that twice as many disabled people are working on paper than in reality.

The North Korean authorities put a Japanese tourist out of the country. The man was arrested on suspicion of criminal offenses. The State Press Agency of North Korea reports that the Japanese is being treated leniently and may leave.

Japan on Thursday executed the remaining six sentenced members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect. The sect was behind the attack with the nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo metro in 1995, resulting in thirteen deaths and more than 6,000 wounded. The six were put to death by hanging, the Japanese channel NHK announced.

The ongoing heat in Japan has led to new local temperature records. In the city of Kumagaya, northwest of the capital Tokyo, the mercury rose to 41.1 degrees. Never before was the Japanese meteorological service so hot in that part of the country, which has been plagued by extreme weather conditions in recent months.

A summit this week between the EU and Japan, in the presence of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, has been postponed to 17 July for one week and moved from Brussels to Tokyo. That was decided in connection with the severe weather in Japan. Abe does not want to leave the country now.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that he has made progress 'on almost all important issues' in talks with North Korea. He also mentioned the establishment of a timetable for the dismantling of the North Korean atomic program. But according to him there is still a lot of work to do.

The death toll due to the extreme weather in Japan has risen to fifteen. Approximately fifty people are still missing. At least 1.6 million people had to be evacuated. That is what Japanese media report.

In Japan, the former leader of the sect Aum Shinrikyo, who was behind the attack with the nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo metro in 1995, was put to death. Shoko Asahara, is the first of thirteen sect members sentenced to death who were executed, confirmed the secretary of the cabinet.

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has adjusted its expectations for inflation downwards. The central bank of Japan left its interest rate policy unchanged as expected.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said at the summit with US President Donald Trump that he is open to a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This is reported by the Japanese newspaper Japan Times on the basis of government sources.

Automaker Toyota is investing heavily in the taxi app Grab. The Japanese group is investing $ 1 billion in Uber's Singaporean competitor, which was announced on Wednesday. Two managers of Toyota will have a management position at Grab as a result of the investment.

In Tokyo, thousands of people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. They accuse Abe of nepotism and want him to resign.

Exactly 23 years after the fatal attack with sarin in the Tokyo subway, speculations in Japan grow that the responsible cultists are quickly executed. Thirteen people were killed in the attack with nerve gas and thousands of people became ill.

With the resignation of Kobe Steel CEO Hiroya Kawasaki in Tokyo after the scandal with manipulation of his steel quality, the company is preparing to settle claims.

Russia and China will cooperate more closely in the investigation into the moon. Igor Komarov, the boss of Roskosmos, agreed with a representative of the Chinese space agency CNSA during a conference in Tokyo. Both countries have declared their willingness to support each other in lunar projects.

The police in Japan found more body parts of a missing woman in a mountainous area around the cities of Osaka and Tokyo. That is what Japanese media report. An American tourist is the perpetrator.

Japanese agents have arrested two men in Tokyo after the headquarters was fired from a pro-North Korean organization. The police report that several bullets were fired at the building from a vehicle, reports Japanese media.

The Japanese stock market rose somewhat on Wednesday after the heavy exchange losses in the past two trading days.

Several people were injured, probably after a volcano erupted at a ski resort in Japan. One skier was surprised by an avalanche after the eruption on Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, but he is now in safety, reports national broadcaster NHK.