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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, then newly appointed Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Seiko Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Hashimoto's response to a question in the upper house of Parliament on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, implies the Olympics could be held later in the year and would not have to start on July 24, 2020. Tokyo's Olympics are being threatened by a fast-spreading virus that has shut down most sports events and Olympic-related events in Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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Japan Olympic Minister: Games could be held any time in 2020

by Yuri Kageyama Associated Press, and Mari Yamaguchi Associated PressMarch 3, 2020

TOKYO – Japan’s Olympic minister said Tuesday the contract to hold the Tokyo Games only specifies the event has to be held during 2020.Seiko Hashimoto’s response to a question in the upper house of parliament implies the Olympics could be held later…

In this May 12, 2016, photo, former Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during the press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japan's Kyodo News service said Tuesday, March 5, 2019, a Tokyo court has okayed release of detained Nissan ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn on bail.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Japan court okays’s Nissan ex-Chairman Ghosn’s release on bail

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressMarch 5, 2019

FILE - In this April 25, 2016, file photo, then Renault-Nissan's CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference held at Auto China 2016 in Beijing, China. A court in Tokyo on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 rejected former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s latest request for bail, made more than two months after his arrest, prolonging a detention that has brought Japan’s harsh justice system under international scrutiny. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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Tokyo court rejects Ex-Nissan chairman’s bail request

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressJanuary 23, 2019

Security officials stand guard in front of Tokyo Detention Center, where former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn is detained, in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Ghosn has recovered from a fever, his lawyer Motonari Ohtsuru said Friday as the 64-year-old executive's latest detention period was set to expire. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressJanuary 11, 2019

FILE - In this Saturday, June 3, 2017, file photo, Tsubasa Nakamura, project leader of Cartivator, third from left, watches the flight of the test model of the flying car on a former school ground in Toyota, central Japan. The Japanese government has started a “flying car” project, bringing together more than a dozen companies, including All Nippon Airways, electronics company NEC, Toyota-backed startup Cartivator and Uber, the ride-hailing service. Toyota and its group companies have also invested 42.5 million yen (375,000) in a Japanese startup, Cartivator, that is working on a flying car. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda, File)

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Will flying cars take off? Japan’s government hopes so

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressSeptember 18, 2018

Sony Corp. President Kenichiro Yoshida speaks as characters from Peanuts are shown at a press conference at the company’s headquarters Tuesday in Tokyo.

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Sony buys most of EMI Music, to spend $9B on image sensors

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressMay 22, 2018

In this Oct. 3, 2009 file photo, Snoopy, right, throws out the ceremonial first pitch while Charlie Brown looks on prior to the New York Mets playing the Houston Astros in a baseball game at Citi Field in New York. Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp.'s music unit is buying a stake in Peanuts Holdings, the company behind Snoopy and Charlie Brown. Sony Music Entertainment said Monday, May 14, 2018, it signed a deal with DHX Media, based in Nova Scotia, Canada, to acquire 49 percent of the 80 percent stake DHX holds in Peanuts. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

Snoopy joining Sony? Electronics maker buying Peanuts stake

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressMay 15, 2018

Former U.S. President Barack Obama, left, is greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in front of a Japanese Sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Obama says negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear weapons program are difficult, partly because the country's isolation minimizes possible leverage, such as trade and travel sanctions against Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, Pool)

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Obama: Isolation makes N. Korea hard to negotiate with

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressMarch 25, 2018

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda, left, and Mazda Motor Corp. President Masamichi Kogai, right, pose for media prior to a press conference in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday they plan to spend 1.6 billion to set up a joint-venture auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. — a move that will create up to 4,000 jobs. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Toyota, Mazda plan $1.6 billion U.S. plant, to partner in EVs

by Tom Krisher Associated Press, and Yuri Kageyama Associated PressAugust 6, 2017

An election staff member carries a ballot box for voting at a ballot counting center in Tokyo on Sunday. Japan's ruling coalition was a clear winner in Sunday's parliamentary election, media exit polls indicated, paving the way for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to push ahead.

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Ruling coalition wins election, promises revival

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressJuly 10, 2016