By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese refinery Taiyo Oil has bought its first Sakhalin Blend crude from Russia in more than two years at the Japanese government's request, it said on Tuesday, to ...

TOKYO -- Japan has imported Russian crude oil for the first time in more than two years, delivered on a tanker sanctioned by both the U.S. and the European Union.

Akie Abe, widow of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on ...

Japanese oil refiner Taiyo Oil has brought in Russian oil on a sanctioned aframax tanker. The 113,00-dwt Voyager (built 2013) ...

Since 2016, Russia has had to compete under differing names at the Olympics. That's the year it was revealed numerous Russian athletes had been involved in a years-long, state-sponsored doping ...

Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers are operating together for the first time in the Pacific, fueling Tokyo’s concern about Beijing’s rapidly ...

Russian Olympic swimmer Valeriia Salamatina was banned for two years for doping in a verdict announced by the International Testing Agency ...

Core consumer prices in Tokyo climbed 3.6 percent in May from a year earlier, rising at the fastest pace in over two years, ...