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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday the government plans to ease the impact of rising electricity prices on the public by awarding power-saving households points that can be used to help lower their utility bills. At the first meeting of a govern…

Naomi Osaka’s Evolve sports agency inked a deal Monday with Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios, making him the first athlete on its books. Four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka launched Evolve with her longtime agent Stuart Duguid after she split from…

The new president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. pledged to shareholders on Tuesday to reform the company’s corporate culture after multiple system failures severely impacted operations at its key banking unit. “Changing corporate culture cannot be ach…

A Nobel Peace Prize medal belonging to independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta’s editor-in-chief was auctioned off for $103.5 million in New York on Monday, with the money to be used for children displaced by ongoing war in Ukraine. The winning amo…

The Australian subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp. has appealed a Federal Court decision in a class-action case that ordered the Japanese auto giant to compensate Australian customers who purchased faulty Toyota vehicles. Hundreds of thousands of Australi…

Tokyo stocks opened nearly flat Monday as bargain-hunting following the Nikkei index’s steep fall in the previous session was offset by caution ahead of congressional testimony by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell later this week. In the firs…

The Japan women’s national basketball team, ranked eighth in the world, defeated ninth-ranked Turkey for the second straight day on Sunday, 83-57. Five players from Japan, the Tokyo Olympic silver medal-winning team, scored in double digits at Chiba Po…

Rapid Vienna forward Koya Kitagawa has rejoined his old club Shimizu S-Pulse on a full transfer, the J-League first-division side said Sunday. The Shimizu youth product left the club in July 2019 for Rapid. The 25-year-old scored five goals in 49 games…

Masanori Ishikawa threw seven solid innings and Munetaka Murakami homered twice as the Central League-leading Yakult Swallows won their eighth straight, an 8-3 victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Sunday. Ishikawa (4-3) surrendered two first-inning runs …

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has the highest support rate ahead of the July 10 upper house election, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. In a nationwide telephone survey conducted on Saturday and Sunday, 27.3 percent of respondents said they will…