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By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada

Issey Miyake’s fall-winter collection has transformed the runway in Paris’ Palais de Tokyo into a visual feast, fusing art and fashion at Paris Fashion Week

Uniqlo Co_ has sued rival retailer Shein over a small shoulder bag the Japanese retailer said was an inferior and unlawful copy of its own hit product touted as the “Mary Poppins bag.”

ChatGPT, saying generative AI had helped unlock her potential. Since the 2022 launch of ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay upon request within seconds, there have been growing worries about the impact on a range of sectors — books included.

By Leika Kihara

By Satoshi Sugiyama

Tokyo on Wednesday after an intoxicated passenger bit a cabin attendant mid-flight, reported news agency AFP. The man, reportedly a 55-year-old American, was "heavily drunk" when he bit the crew member's arm, leaving her injured, a spokesperson from the airline told the news agency. The ANA spokesperson further said following the incident, the pilots of the plane with 159 passengers on board, returned the flight to Haneda airport.

By Leika Kihara

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan says it has no new safety worries and envisions no changes to the plant’s decommissioning plans even after a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1 caused minor damage to another idled nuc...

A Japanese fire department says a Korean Air plane carrying 289 people hit a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft while being pushed by a vehicle from a parking spot at northern Japan’s New Chitose Airport

Cathay Pacific plane while taxiing at a Japanese airport on Tuesday, with both airlines saying there were no injuries. The incident comes two weeks after a near-catastrophic collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport when a Japan Airlines plane collided as it landed with a smaller coast guard plane. Cathay Pacific said the accident on Tuesday took place while its aircraft was parked at New Chitose Airport serving Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaido.

Shares are lower in Europe and Asia, with Hong Kong's benchmark down more than 2% as jitters over China's outlook cast a shadow over regional markets

Netflix will host the release of Pokémon Horizons: The Series in March 2024, marking the 26th season of the Pokémon anime. Notably, this season deviates from the long-standing duo of Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, featuring new characters Liko and Roy. Pokémon's New Era

European markets have opened lower while Asian markets were mostly higher as the week got off to a mixed start

Members of a group of men who say they were sexually abused as boys by a Japanese entertainment mogul are accusing the company behind the scandal of not being sincere in dealing with the victims and say many have not received compensation

Some schools have reopened and limited garbage collection has resumed in Japan’s northcentral region of Noto that was hit by the deadly New Year’s Day earthquake

By Anton Bridge

By Makiko Yamazaki, Brigid Riley and Anton Bridge

Japan's Nikkei share average on Monday crossed the 36,000 mark for the first time in 34 years, powered by shippers and financials, with a retreat in U.S. bond yields and a stabilisation in the yen exchange rate buoying sentiment. The Nikkei finished the day nearly 1% higher at 35,901.73, after touching the highest since February 1990 at 36,008.23. Value shares outperformed after lagging growth stocks last week when the Nikkei index booked its best performance in 22 months. The broader Topix, which is less weighted towards technology shares than the Nikkei, rose 1.22% on the day and also touched a new 34-year high during the session. The Topix value share sub-index climbed 1.55%, outpacing a 0.88% rise for the growth share sub-index. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's (TSE) shippers index jumped 5.3% to lead gains among the 33 industry groups, with geopolitical risks pushing up shipping rates. Shares of financials, which had retreated sharply on Friday, rebounded strongly.

2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medal match — was it. India’s Olympics campaign had hit the wall and the team failed to make the final despite a brilliant effort. And the girls, understandably, were inconsolable. The men’s team was giving them a rousing ovation from the stands.

Japan has successfully launched a rocket carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite on a mission to watch movements at military sites in North Korea and improve natural disaster response