By Kentaro Okasaka and Tamiyuki Kihara TOKYO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Japan is in the midst of a major push to revive its chip sector, but its latest investments show how Tokyo is being pulled into helping the US build up its own semiconductor industry.

Japan is months from running out of supplies of yttrium, a critical metal, and has asked the US to push China to ease rare earth export controls that threaten severe disruption to the global automotive, defence and chip industries.

Japanese and U.S. troops have kicked off one of their largest joint exercises, focusing on defending Japan's southwestern islands

By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan may raise its inflation outlook for the next fiscal year in forecasts due this month, as rising oil prices exert longer-than-expected price pressures on the economy,

Andrew Koller visited Japan for the first time in 2023. Three years later he bought a home there and plans to use it for vacationing and rentals.

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Gianni Infantino’s campaign for re-election as FIFA president moves this week to Japan and a meeting with the Asian Football Confederation.

Russia arrested the journalist from the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper on suspicion of espionage. Read more at straitstimes.com.