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Shoshi Maekawa, 60, has been acquitted in a retrial over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in the city of Fukui. He had consistently pleade･･･ ...

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The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

Corporate loan demand across the Eurozone increased in the second quarter according to the European Central Bank’s latest quarterly survey of 155 major lenders. “Loan demand was supported by declining ...

A Japanese man was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison in China on espionage charges, according to the ...

Japanese Americans at Saturday's protest fear reopening the prison could be a repeat of what happened during World War II, ...

A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma , who was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison in China this week, has no plan to appeal, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Saturday, citing unnamed Japanese and ...

A Japanese man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison in China on espionage charges.