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June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are down -0.29%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are down -0.57% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices finished the regular session mixed as hawkish signals from the Federal Reserve weighed on sentiment, while investors also awaited key U.S. retail sales data.

Japanese youngster Miyata, a race winner in both Super Formula and SUPER GT, was named as the latest member of Toyota’s WEC Challenge programme in the lead-up to last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, and was embedded within the team for the French classic.

Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says Ukrainian personnel being trained so when planes are delivered, pilots are ready

If you’re a team looking to campaign GT3 machinery on some of Japan’s finest racetracks, lately you have been rather spoiled for choice.

Lars Søndergaard recently called up 24 players for two friendlies against Sweden and Japan.

Lenses from Chinese brands are now so good that Japanese-built optics have no clear advantage

Thai women's doubles pairs Benyapa Aimsaard/Nuntakarn Aimsaard and Jongkolphan Kititharakul/Rawinda Prajongjai moved into the last 16 of the US$1,250,000 BWF Indonesia Open in Jakarta on Wednesday.

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is making arrangements to visit Japan in early July for meetings about the planned release into the ocean of treated water that contains tritium from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a government source said.

NIIGATA -- A Russian businesswoman living in Japan has become a guarantor for a Ukrainian national who fled his home country to live here.

‘We’re relieved to share that we’ve obtained our beloved daughter, sister and cousin Kandace Schipper’s location,’ family says