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Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games.

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO warned new investors about the difficulty of picking individual stocks.

Biden is calling for a paid leave policy that would compensate workers for 12 weeks while they took care of children or parents or healed from an illness.

Tokyo Olympic organizers this week are to unveil additional plans to explain how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes can compete in Japan when the games open in three months.

Japan’s state of emergency took effect Sunday in an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

Solar and wind energy could replace fossil fuels entirely to become the world’s power source by 2050, a new report has claimed.

Japan has issued a third state of emergency for Tokyo and three western prefectures to curb a surge in the coronavirus.

Rachel Kyte, who served as a special representative of the U.N. secretary-general, says “coal has no place in the race to net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050. 

The landmark proposal, which was jointly submitted by India and South Africa in October, has been backed by more than 100 mostly developing countries

Japan and Malaysia each have perfected the art of growing high-class fruit. Now, the fruits are ready to be sold for a high price.

President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are showcasing the alliance between their two countries as well as their shared resolve in dealing with China

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has arrived in Washington for talks with President Joe Biden meant to show the strength of the two nations’ security alliance

Brent Heuser of University of Illinois said filtering the water will remove most radioactive elements, leaving only tritium that’s not harmful in small amounts.

Two officials in Japan’s ruling LDP party have suggested separately that the Tokyo Olympics could be in for some radical changes

U.S. President Joe Biden will hold his first in-person summit with a foreign leader on Friday when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga heads to Washington.

Japan’s government has decided to start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years

Hear from Allyson Felix, Megan Rapinoe, Katie Ledecky and other members of Team USA as they share their experience during the pandemic, emotions after the 2020 Games were delayed and the excitement for Tokyo.

Hideki Matsuyama won the 2021 Masters Golf Tournament Sunday, making him the first male golfer from Japan to win the tournament.

Japan’s famous cherry blossoms reached their peak earlier than ever before this year, with experts suggesting the record-setting date is the result of climate change.

The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will not run through the streets of Osaka prefecture next week because of rising COVID-19 cases