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Improved exports and consumption helped Japan emerge from the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic

Japan economy vaults back from Covid-induced recession

Business • 16 Nov

Honda said its second-quarter earnings grew by 28%

Honda doubles profit forecast, boosted by China rebound

Business • 06 Nov

Toyota, which makes the Prius hybrid, said it now expects to sell 9.42 million cars this year

Toyota more than doubles full year profit outlook

Business • 06 Nov

Natsumi Hakozaki working on Yuki-chan the sheep

Japanese clinic giving new life to old stuffed friends

News Lens • 05 Nov

CPL Chairman John Hennessy, CEO Anne Heraty and CFO Lorna Conn

CPL Resources shares soar as Outsourcing buys firm

Business • 04 Nov

'I declare we will aim to realise a decarbonised society,' Yoshihide Suga said

Japanese PM Suga pledges climate neutrality by 2050

Environment • 26 Oct

British Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in Tokyo today

UK signs major post-Brexit trade deal with Japan

Business • 23 Oct

Takahiro Shiraishi being transported to the prosecutor's office from a police station in Tokyo in November 2017

Lawyers say 'Twitter killer' victims consented to death

World • 30 Sep

Yoshihide Suga takes the applause in parliament after being voted in as prime minister

Suga elected Japan's new PM in parliament vote

World • 16 Sep

Yoshihide Suga acknowledges the crowd as he is elected new head of Japan's ruling party the LDP

Suga set to become Japanese PM after winning party vote

World • 14 Sep

The UK's International Trade Secretary Liz Truss

UK agrees first major post-Brexit trade deal with Japan

Business • 11 Sep

Japan, the world's third-largest economy, shrank an annualised 28.1% in the three months from April to June

Japan reports worst postwar economic downturn

Business • 08 Sep

Large waves break over a coastal wall at Imwon harbour in Donnghae, Gangwon-do province, South Korea

Typhoon Haishen threatens Korea after battering Japan

World • 07 Sep

A 30-year-old Philippine national became the second survivor of the capsized cattle ship

Second crew member of capsized ship rescued near Japan

World • 04 Sep

Shinzo Abe announced his resignation as Japan's Prime Minister due to health reasons

Race for new Japan PM starts after shock resignation

World • 29 Aug

Speculation about the prime minister's health has been mounting recently

Japan PM Abe resigns over health problems

World • 28 Aug

A slow economic recovery from last quarter's record slump is expected to weigh on Japanese prices as consumer demand collapsed amid resurgent Covid infections

Japan's consumer prices flat as deflation spectre looms

Business • 21 Aug

Japan, the world's third-largest economy, shrank an annualised 27.8% in the three months from April to June

Japan's record economic plunge wipes out Abe era gains

Business • 17 Aug

People pray at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo

Japan marks 75th anniversary of WWII defeat

Asia • 15 Aug

The number of participants in this year's ceremony was reduced due to coronavirus fears

Nagasaki commemorates 75 years since atomic bombing

World • 09 Aug

A man holds a flower as he queues to pray in remembrance of the victims of the Hiroshima bombing

Hiroshima marks 75 years since atomic bombing

World • 06 Aug

The plaintiffs were in areas showered in radioactive 'black rain' following the attack

Japanese court recognises more Hiroshima bomb survivors

World • 29 Jul

Launch in Japan was broadcast on screens at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai

First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan

World • 20 Jul

Robots wore Hawks caps and waved flags supporting the team as they danced before the game

Japanese baseball team turn to robots for support

News Lens • 08 Jul

Debris litters a village following heavy rain in Kumamura, Kumamoto, Japan

Rain pounds central Japan as 61 feared dead in south

World • 08 Jul

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