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The White House on Tuesday called on companies to join the U.S. government in countering Beijing’s alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, after electric car maker Tesla Inc. was found to have opened a showroom in the region in China. “I can’t speak t…

Japan’s central and local governments as well as many companies started the year’s first day of work Tuesday amid growing fear over the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The highly transmissible Omicron strain continued to spread in Japan during the year…

About 84 percent of major companies in Japan expect the country’s economy to grow in 2022, driven by recovering personal consumption amid hopes that the coronavirus pandemic will subside, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. In the survey of 106 companie…

Scottish Premier League heavyweights Celtic announced the signing Friday of J-League players Daizen Maeda, Reo Hatate and Yosuke Ideguchi in a blockbuster January transfer window move. The Japanese trio will join Samurai Blue attacker Kyogo Furuhashi a…

As China has been bolstering its “zero corona” policy ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics, many Japanese workers in the capital, who have not returned to their home country for around two years, have remained cut off from their families. While urging …

A group of people who purchased condominiums to be converted from the athletes village for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have taken the developers to court, saying they will incur additional costs due to a prospective one-year delay in the handove…

Hosting the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics amid the coronavirus pandemic has been picked as the top domestic news story of 2021 by senior editors of Kyodo News and its member or subscriber newspapers and broadcasters. (1) The Tokyo Olympics and Paralym…

Nippon TV Beleza forward Jun Endo will move to Los Angeles-based NWSL expansion franchise Angel City FC, the Japanese WE League women’s club said Tuesday. The 21-year-old was a member of Nadeshiko Japan, the women’s national soccer team, for the Tokyo …

An injury-time goal from departing club stalwart Tomoaki Makino clinched Urawa Reds a 2-1 victory over Oita Trinita in a thrilling Emperor’s Cup final on Sunday. The 34-year-old former Japan center-back made an unforgettable cameo in his last match for…

Softbank Hawks outfielder Yuki Yanagita agreed on Friday a 620 million yen ($5.46 million) annual salary for the 2022 season which will make him the highest-paid position player in Nippon Professional Baseball history. Yanagita, who banked 610 million …