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The season officially began this year with the games played between Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs on March 18 and 19 at Japan's Tokyo Dome.

One Piece is set to resume its Egghead Arc after a hiatus that began in October last year. One Piece Part 2 will premiere on April 5, bringing back the Straw Hat Pirates for an action-packed continuation of their adventure, as mentioned in a report by Collider. To mark the occasion, Crunchyroll and Toei Animation have planned a grand premiere weekend, featuring two brand-new episodes and an extensive 83-minute recap special, as per the Collider report. This event aims to help fans catch up on the story and set the stage for the next chapter in Luffy's journey. A Global Premiere with a Packed Lineup

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI are stepping up their partnership in artificial intelligence, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan

Wall Street is tumbling Monday on fears that the market’s winners who have feasted on the artificial-intelligence frenzy are under threat from a competitor in China that can do similar things for much cheaper.

Japan's Tokyo is seeing foreign men now flocking to Tokyo for “sex tourism” as against the tradition of Japanese men travelling to foreign lands for it, reported The Star. “Japan has become a poor country,” he told This Week in Asia at the organisation’s offices. Nearby, in a park that’s become synonymous with the city’s sex trade, young women wait for customers before the sun has even set. Tanaka’s organisation noticed an increasing number of foreigners frequenting the park as soon as pandemic-era travel restrictions were dropped. This influx has coincided with a troubling rise in teenagers and women in their early twenties turning to the sex industry to survive alongside an alarming increase in violence.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “WE WORK for the nation, not for the cabinet minister," crows Kazagoshi Shingo, the hero of “The Summer of Bureaucrats", a Japanese novel. Kazagoshi, an official at the ministry of trade and industry, refuses to rise from his seat to greet his minister, a politician only nominally above him in the hierarchy.

Vedanta Limited on Wednesday said its display glass business is expected to grow 10-fold, following the consolidation of its holding in AvanStrate Inc. Vedanta Ltd, in May this year, announced the acquisition of an additional 46.57 per cent stake in AvanStrate Inc, taking its total holding in the Japanese display glass manufacturer to about 98 per cent. ASI is now fully managed and controlled by Vedanta Limited and free from any external debt, according to a release. «Vedanta Limited announced that the display glass business is set to grow 10x after consolidating its holding in AvanStrate Inc. (ASI), a Japanese display glass manufacturer, to 98 per cent, following the acquisition of 46.57 per cent equity from Hoya Corporation,» the release said.

Two Days Opening the Door to Web3 Industry UtilizationWebX2024 is a global Web3 conference organized and managed by CoinPost, Japan’s largest cryptocurrency and Web3 media outlet.

Wall Street’s record-breaking rally ran into a wall, as worries about potentially worsening trade tensions with China hit stocks of chip companies

Netflix has announced a new live-action series, Soul Mate, which explores a 10-year romance between a Korean man and a Japanese man. This series is part of Netflix's expansion into Japanese content.

Americans traveling this summer have broadly seen prices fall for airline fares, a welcome trend after last year's sticker shock.

Ramen noodles are so popular that they've become one reason to visit Japan

Health supplement products believed to have caused two deaths and sickened more than 100 people have been ordered to be taken off store shelves in Japan

A South Korean tanker has capsized off an island in southwestern Japan

A commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit has been intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff in central Japan

ALSO READ: Wall Street week ahead: Stock market investors to keenly watch for Feb inflation data Shares of Microsoft fell 0.8 per cent, Amazon shed 1.0 per cent, Nvidia lost 0.7 per cent, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom slid close to 2 per cent each, and Boeing dropped 2.2 per cent. Cryptocurrency and blockchain-related companies, including Coinbase Global, Riot Platforms and Marathon Digital, climbed between 2.7 per cent and 2.9 per cent, as Bitcoin struck a fresh record high at $72,234 on Monday. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.09 per cent from 4.08 per cent late on Friday.

Climate change may be causing more competition for food in oceans, leading to a reduction in the weight of fish, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan found that fish weight in the western North Pacific Ocean dipped in the 2010s due to warmer water limiting food supplies. They attributed the first period of weight loss to greater numbers of Japanese sardines, which increased competition with other species for food. «With higher temperatures, the ocean's upper layer becomes more stratified, and previous research has shown that larger plankton are replaced with smaller plankton and less nutritious gelatinous species, such as jellyfish,» Professor Shin-ichi Ito from the University of Tokyo said.

NEW DELHI : Data center and IT infrastructure provider NTT is massively expanding its presence in India, which it considers to be both geopolitically stable and the world’s fastest growing data center market. The company has eight new data centres under construction in India, which would add to its 14 existing centres in the country. India also offers a large pool of talent and revenue growth opportunity, which will further expand with the advent of AI and GenAI, NTT Global Data Centers chief executive and president Doug Adams said while launching the company’s first data centre in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.

Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said on Thursday as it cautioned that the global cost-of-living crisis was not yet over. On average, prices have risen by 7.4% year on year in local currency terms for over 200 commonly used goods and services, a drop from the record 8.1% increase last year but still "significantly higher than the trend in 2017-2021," it said in a report.

Pokémon fans have a reason rejoice as "Pokémon Horizons: The Series" is set to premiere in February 2024 on Netflix. This marks the 26th season of the Pokémon anime and introduces the Pokémon Horizons storyline, a departure from the preceding 25 seasons featuring Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, as per WhatsOnNetflix report. In a significant shift, «Pokémon Horizons: The Series» follows the adventures of Liko and Roy, accompanied by their Pokémon companions Sprigatito and Fuecoco. Notably, it marks the first season without the familiar characters of Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, emblematic figures in the Pokémon franchise. The series initially aired on TV Tokyo in Japan starting from April 14, 2023. Exciting news was officially confirmed via the Pokémon X account, announcing the arrival of «Pokémon Horizons: The Series» on Netflix on February 23, 2023. Get ready for a fresh Pokémon journey with new characters and stories. Netflix had a tough year in 2022. Big rivals such as Disney and Amazon Prime were circling, and viewers seemed to be rethinking their streaming habits amid rising prices in a turbulent global economy. Netflix lost subscribers, and its share value plummeted. Since then though, the company appears to have enjoyed a very swift reboot. According to its latest letter to shareholders, it added 8.8 million new subscribers in the third quarter of 2023, on top of the 5.9 million it gained in the three months before that. The total number of subscribers worldwide is now 247.2 million.

Reuters reported that the gunman had wounded two other people in a shooting at a hospital The Japanese police surrounded a post office, and said the case may be linked to an earlier apparent shooting at a nearby hospital in which two people were wounded. One post office employee is still believed to be inside the building, according to AP. Warabi, is situated North of Tokyo, the capital city of Japan.