Japan

Japan’s official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooms, declaring the start of the festive season in the Japanese capital.

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Guinness World Records awarded the designation to the tiny recreational spot in Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan, which is just 2.6 square feet big, Feb. 25.

A Japan Airlines plane that was taxiing struck a parked Delta aircraft at Seattle-Tacoma Airport on Wednesday morning.

The crater is approximately 32 feet wide and 20 feet deep, local media reported.

When Shoji Morimoto was fired from his job, his superior criticized him for “not doing anything.” Since then, Morimoto has spun a career out of “doing nothing.”

Sushi restaurant operator Onodera Group paid the second-highest price on record at Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market.

Toyota Motor is exploring the development and production of orbital rockets, Chair CEO Akio Toyoda said Monday.

Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s decision to block a proposed nearly $15 billion deal for Nippon to acquire Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. The suit, filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, alleges that it was a political decision and violated the companies’ due process. Nippon Steel...

Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan.

His decision comes after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of the deal last month, and sent a long-awaited report on the merger to Biden.

President Joe Biden has rejected the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel.

Nissan and Honda plan to enter into negotiations for a merger to better compete in the rapidly changing automotive industry, the Nikkei newspaper reported.

Two sailors assigned to the USS George Washington died within days of each other shortly after the aircraft carrier arrived in Japan, officials and family members said.

The Chanel store is located in Tokyo’s Ritzy Ginza shopping district.

Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of property damage, Tokyo Metropolitan Police said.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “got out his golf clubs for the first time in eight years and resumed his golf practice” as he gets ready to meet President-elect Donald Trump in person, his office told NBC News on Monday.

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is going to a group of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The bomb is believed to have been dropped in Miyazaki, Japan, by the United States during World War II.