Japan's Nakatsugawa aims to attract more visitors to 'Samurai Road'
GIFU, Japan -- Nakatsugawa, in central Japan's Gifu prefecture, has been drawing renewed attention as a tourist destination as the city is slated to h
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Cambodian rice farmers help to conserve threatened cranes
Come December, Cambodian farmer Svay Bau, 57, and nearly 160 other rice growers near the Anlung Pring Protected Landscape, a wetland reserve close to
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Japan food tax cut gets cabinet approval with key questions unanswered
TOKYO -- A temporary consumption tax cut on food approved by Japan's cabinet Friday leaves many important details unresolved, including how to pay for
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Tropicana: Stephen Schwarzman (10)
The first great break in my career at Lehman Brothers, which I had joined in 1972, came six years later, in 1978, when I found myself handling the sal
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Honda to sell Thai-built Mitsubishi pickup under own brand in Southeast Asia
TOKYO -- Honda Motor plans to sell Thai-built Triton pickup trucks built by Mitsubishi Motors under its own brand in Southeast Asia and elsewhere as e
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Japan PM faces calls for immigration cap as she weighs policy on foreigners
TOKYO -- Japan's government will formulate a basic policy on accepting foreign residents by the end of fiscal 2026 in March, Prime Minister Sanae Taka
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Beijing wields pop culture to court Malaysian Chinese
KUALA LUMPUR -- Hearing the dialogue in the hit Chinese movie "Dear You" made Malaysian Chinese actor Yuan Teng nostalgic."Ah, my grandma used to say
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Once China's most valuable stock, liquor maker Kweichow Moutai down 43% from peak
DALIAN, China -- Kweichow Moutai, China's largest spirits maker and once the mainland's most valuable listed company, is still looking for a recipe to
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Bessent to skip IMF, World Bank meetings in Bangkok
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will skip this month's annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Ba
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Japan's Kobe Steel eyes India M&A to lift compressor production: executive
TOKYO -- Japan's Kobe Steel is considering mergers and acquisitions overseas, including in India, to increase production of gas compressors as it grap
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Japan firms unwind $56bn in cross-shareholdings, 2nd most on record
TOKYO -- Listed companies in Japan sold 8.89 trillion yen ($56.2 billion) in cross-shareholdings in the fiscal year ended March, the second-highest am
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Japan machine tool order backlog hits all-time high on AI demand
TOKYO -- Japanese machine tool makers' order books are the fullest they have ever been as suppliers race to meet demand for equipment to produce chips
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Nobel laureate Pillay calls US sanctions on ICC judges 'shocking'
NUREMBERG, Germany -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has sharply criticized sanct
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Trump's 'super intelligence' AI rebrand triggers rush on .si domain names
LONDON/TOKYO -- Registrations for internet domains ending in .si have surged worldwide after U.S. President Donald Trump called for artificial intelli
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Tariffs targeting China's Temu, Shein shrink US small parcel deliveries
BERN, Switzerland -- The volume of small international parcels entering the U.S. and the EU fell significantly since tariff exemptions for such shipme
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Fujitsu to set up US quantum computing research center in New Mexico
TOKYO -- Fujitsu has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. state of New Mexico to establish a quantum computing research center, the Japa
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Japan's DOGE to 'step up' spending review, eyeing EV subsidies, health checks
TOKYO -- Japan's government will quicken the pace of its initiative modeled on the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),
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TDK weighs sale of hard-drive head unit, but regulatory OK uncertain
TOKYO -- Japanese electronic components maker TDK is moving to sell its magnetic head business for hard disk drives (HDDs), entering talks with custom
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