Japan's Nikkei share average climbed past the 50,000 level for the first time on Monday, continuing a run of successive records on expectations of sizeable spending from the nation's new prime minister.

Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so.

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Support for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s new government started on a high note according to polls conducted over the weekend, giving her some momentum as she prepares for a visit by US President Donald Trump that could give the new premier another boost.

US President Donald Trump arrives in Japan for talks with new PM Sanae Takaichi, who hopes personal chemistry and symbolic gestures like buying Ford F-150 trucks will ease trade tensions.

TOKYO (Reuters) -A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation perked up for the second straight month in September, data showed on Monday, backing up the central bank's view that rising labour costs will help keep inflation sustainably around its 2% target.

After all these achievements and at the age of 100, he is not ready to fully retire. “I plan to keep going for about five more years,” Ono said last month as he marked Japans

Japan coach Eddie Jones is not the only man with Australian roots plotting an upset of the Wallabies on Saturday with Dylan Riley and his teammates Ben Gunter, Jack Cornelsen and Sam Greene all having been raised Down Under.