Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

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Yoshinobu Tsutsui, the incoming chairman of the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, and the current chief Masakazu ...

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Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...

Two-thirds of Japanese companies are experiencing a serious business impact from a shortage of workers, a Reuters survey ...