Japan said Wednesday it will not submit a motion against North Korea's human rights record at a U.N. panel for the first time in more than a decade.

The former high-flying head of collapsed bitcoin exchange MtGox will learn his fate Friday as a Tokyo court hands down its verdict on charges of faking digital data and embezzling millions of dollars.

Japanese automaker Nissan is sending out notices to shareholders asking them to dismiss former Chairman Carlos Ghosn as a director at an April 8 shareholders' meeting, the company said Wednesday.

A team of scientists in Japan has successfully coaxed activity from 28,000-year-old cells from a frozen mammoth implanted into mouse cells, but the woolly mammal is unlikely to be walking among us soon.

Marriott has signed a deal to open a second Courtyard hotel in Osaka. Owned by Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing but rented and operated by Sun Frontier Fudousan, the new-build Courtyard by Marriott Osaka Honmachi hotel is expected to open in late 2019.

Infiniti Motor Co, the luxury division of Japanese automaker Nissan, says it's withdrawing from western Europe offering another blow to carmakers in the UK bracing for Britain's departure from the European Union.

It was a tough day for seeded players at the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday, with Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka, the world's top-ranked players, ushered out in the desert.

The World Health Organization has launched a strategy to protect people worldwide over the next decade against the threat of influenza, warning that new pandemics are "inevitable".

A burgeoning K-pop sex scandal claimed a second scalp as a singer who rose to fame after coming second in one of South Korea's top talent shows admitted secretly filming himself having sex and sharing the footage.

Three people waiting at a crossing were hit and killed by a car in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, on Wednesday.

STRASBOURG, France (AP) Britain and the European Union emerged from last-minute talks late Monday to announce they had finally removed the biggest roadblock to their Brexit divorce deal, only hours before the U.K. Parliament was due to decide the fate of Prime Minister Theresa May’s hard-won plan to leave the EU.

The Tokyo District Court denied the request of Carlos Ghosn, former Nissan Motor Co. chairman, to attend the company’s board meeting scheduled for Tuesday, sources said Monday.