Hong Kong (CNN Business) SoftBank shares continued to slide Thursday after the company announced its massive WeWork bailout.
SoftBank will pump $5 billion into The We Company and accelerate a $1.5 bi…

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KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 14:25 | All, Japan, LifestyleThe autumn skies were lit up bright red above Kyoto's Mt.
Kurama earlier this week as hundreds of people bearing huge flaming torches paraded al…

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The Hokkaido Shimbun Press - 1 hour ago - 14:20 | All, Lifestyle, JapanRussian professional kiteboarder Eugenii Novozheev earlier this month successfully completed a roughly 53-kilometer crossing of …

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Understaffing and Japan’s tourism boom are creating openings – even for the inexperienced – in IT engineering jobs for foreigners.
Job titles for engineering positions in Japan include software engin…

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The entire Studio Ghibli catalog, including award-winning and beloved animated titles like My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Spirited Away, will stream exclusively on HBO Max beginning…

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It’s a sense of scale we’ve never seen in Pokémon games before, and it helps really drive home that the top-down, pixel art days are long gone.
There’s no professor to meet, and no grumpy rival that …

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The Major’s back, and looking a bit more three dimensional than you might have hoped.
Netflix has dropped its first look at Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, the upcoming series from Appleseed’s Shinji A…

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By Takuya Okamoto, KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 19:33 | LifestyleTOKYO - Electric vehicles and cars designed for short trips are in the spotlight at the Tokyo Motor Show as automakers face growing pres…

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(Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 13, 2019, shows houses in Nagano, central Japan, submerged after the Chikuma River overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis.)
(The Chikuma River in Nagano, …

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KYODO NEWS - Oct 16, 2019 - 23:36 | Sports, News, AllTOKYO - The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday it is planning to move the 2020 Tokyo Olympic women's and men's marathons and race…

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