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Japanese Emperor Naruhito will be ushered into a dark wooden hall on Thursday night to celebrate his last major accession rite after becoming emperor this spring: spending the night with a goddess. (Photo: AP)

Row over Japan Emperor's last accession rite: 'Spend night' with goddess

Though the empress, dressed in robes with a long train, also appears, she does not follow him in.

14 Nov 2019 3:57 PM

Toyota Motor Corporation's quarterly sales rose 4 per cent to 7.6 trillion yen (USD 70 billion), compared to the previous year. (Photo: File)

Toyota reports 1 per cent profit growth on healthy global sales

Toyota Motor Corp's profit for the second fiscal quarter totaled USD 5.4 billion, up from 585 billion yen last year.

07 Nov 2019 2:42 PM

England and South Africa square up to each other on Saturday to determine who will be crowned champion at Japan’s first Rugby World Cup. (Photo: AFP)

Here are some incredible moments from Japan's Rugby World Cup

The Asian nation’s staging of the event, which kicked off on Sept. 20, has been a huge success.

01 Nov 2019 8:14 PM

Torrential rain that caused flooding and mudslides in towns east of Tokyo left at least seven people dead and added damage in areas still recovering from recent typhoons, officials said Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

Torrential rains, landslides kill 10 in Japan, 3 reported missing

Two weeks ago, Typhoon Hagibis caused widespread flooding and left more than 80 people dead or presumed dead across Japan.

26 Oct 2019 11:31 AM

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,. (Photo: File)

Japan to allocate 710 million yen to support Typhoon Hagibis hit areas

As per Cabinet Office, around 5,500 people remain housed in shelters and more than 2,30,000 people had been evacuated ahead of the storm.

16 Oct 2019 6:43 PM

Rescuers in Japan worked into a third day on Tuesday in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a powerful typhoon that killed nearly 70 people and caused widespread destruction. (Photo: AP)

Clean-up, rescue efforts on in Japan as typhoon Hagibis death toll nears 70

By Tuesday morning, some 34,000 households were still without power, and 133,000 homes had no water.

15 Oct 2019 12:15 PM

Japan's military scrambled Sunday to rescue people trapped by flooding in the aftermath of powerful Typhoon Hagibis, which killed at least eleven people, caused landslides and burst rivers. (Photo: AP)

11 dead, thousands in shelters as typhoon hagibis hammers Japan

Japan's military deployed helicopters to rescue people seen in aerial footage standing on balconies waving towels to attract attention.

13 Oct 2019 9:59 AM

The US House of Representatives will launch a formal impeachment inquiry over whether Donald Trump sought help from the Ukraine to smear former Vice President Joe Biden, a front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Trump has denied the claims. (Photo: File | ANI)

Global stock markets rattled as Trump impeachment bid raises new risks

The dramatic move by House of Representatives Democrats compounded investors’ anxieties.

25 Sep 2019 12:55 PM

Crude prices surged by nearly 20 per cent on Monday as they responded to Saturday’s attack.

Oil falls more than 1 pc as market awaits response to Saudi oil attacks

The company has not given a specific timeline for the resumption of full output.

17 Sep 2019 10:33 AM

Typhoon Faxai powered into the Tokyo region in the early hours of Monday last week. (Photo: AFP)

Almost 80,000 homes still without power a week after Japan typhoon

Local media showed residents in Chiba hurriedly covering broken roofs with blue tarps.

16 Sep 2019 2:38 PM

Yahoo Japan bids for control of fashion e-tailer Zozo for USD 3.7 billion

Yahoo Japan aims to buy 50.1 per cent Zozo, whose market value was 680 billion yen.

12 Sep 2019 10:30 AM

The utility says it will run out of room to store the water by 2022. Harada did not say how much water would need to be dumped into the ocean. (Photo: AP)

Japan to dump radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific, says minister

‘The only option will be to drain it into the sea and dilute it,’ the minister, Yoshiaki Harada, told a news briefing in Tokyo.

10 Sep 2019 4:01 PM

Russia’s oil output in August exceeded its quota under the OPEC+ agreements.

Oil hits six-week high on hopes of extended OPEC output cuts

In the United States, crude stockpiles are likely to have fallen for a fourth consecutive week last week.

10 Sep 2019 10:48 AM

Around 17,000 passengers were stranded overnight at Tokyo's Narita Airport, an official said Tuesday, after it took a direct hit from a powerful typhoon that caused transport chaos throughout the capital. (Photo: AP)

Typhoon left 17,000 people stranded at Tokyo airport

The airport said it delivered 2,000 bottles of water, 19,000 bags of crackers and 18,000 bed rolls to stranded passengers.

10 Sep 2019 9:45 AM

Nissan's board, including executives from the firm's alliance partner Renault, will meet at the company's Yokohama headquarters.

Crisis-hit Nissan CEO set to resign as board meets

Saikawa is suspected of improperly adding 47 million yen (USD 440,000) to his compensation by altering the terms of a bonus.

09 Sep 2019 10:37 AM

Oil will struggle to make substantial headway topside this week with no progress on trade talks or meetings even, soft data from Asia and a possible cracking of OPEC’s resolve to control production, said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA.

Oil prices fall as market eyes trade war, awaits stocks data

US crude was down 26 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at USD 54.84 a barrel by 0644 GMT, while Brent was down 6 cents at USD 58.60 a barrel.

03 Sep 2019 1:19 PM

Brent crude was up 8 cents, or 0.1 per cent, at USD 61.16 a barrel, by 0420 GMT after adding 1 per cent on Thursday.

Oil set for biggest weekly gain since July on trade dispute hopes

WTI futures, slumped last week by nearly 2 million barrels to their lowest since December.

30 Aug 2019 11:09 AM

Toyota and Suzuki are also cooperating in the Indian market, where Suzuki remains a strong player.

Toyota, Suzuki partnering in self-driving car technology

Toyota will take a 4.9 per cent stake in Suzuki Motor Corp. valued at 96 billion yen (USD 908 million).

28 Aug 2019 4:13 PM

US crude stockpiles fell sharply last week as imports dropped, plummeting by 11.1 million barrels.

Oil gains, led by US crude, as recession worries ease

Crude oil prices have fallen about 20 per cent from 2019 highs reached in April.

28 Aug 2019 11:54 AM

'This progress will be confirmed at the Japan-US summit' on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit currently being held in France, where how to proceed further will be also discussed, Motegi said. (Photo: AFP)

Japan, US reach broad agreement on trade deal: reports

'We saw a great progress,' Japan's minister in charge of trade talks with the US, Toshimitsu Motegi, told reporters in Washington.

25 Aug 2019 3:19 PM

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