Netherlands have the most stars. Sweden might've the best player. But Japan might have the team to do the impossible this summer.

Japanese homemaker Maki Watanabe carefully pours into a plastic bottle the oil she used to cook her deep-fried aubergines, doing her part in her Tokyo kitchen for a national effort ​to ramp up production of eco-friendly jet fuel.

A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan last year, and there has been a jump in sightings as the animals emerge hungry from hibernation.

A bear has injured four people in a Japanese residential area in the latest case of attacks by the animals in the region.

Despite recent foreign-exchange intervention, the Japanese currency has weakened again to near the 160 threshold against the dollar, a level seen as a potential trigger for more government action.

TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) - Japan's foreign reserves fell by $77 billion in May, government data showed on Friday, as Tokyo resumed massive interventions to stem the yen's slide, fuelling market speculation over how far it's willing to draw on its $1.

Japan’s national team has changed practice venues in Monterrey ahead of the World Cup after players encountered an uneven pitch marred by patches of dirt at their original training ground.