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A major shareholder of Japan's Fuji Media Holdings says it will launch a proxy fight so that its candidates for the firm's board will gain approval at the upcoming general shareholders' meeting.

US President Donald Trump says he is recommending a 50 percent tariff on the European Union starting on June 1.

Onosato has won the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with two days to spare, assuring his promotion from ozeki to yokozuna, the highest rank in the sport.

Japan's tariff negotiator is expected to propose greater investment by Japanese companies in the United States in the upcoming ministerial-level tariff talks in Washington.

A fossil of a butterfly now believed extinct that was discovered in western Japan 37 years ago has been identified as that of a new species of the insect.

Russia and Ukraine say they have received lists of prisoners of war for a major exchange agreed between the two countries earlier this month.