Netherlands have the most stars. Sweden might've the best player. But Japan might have the team to do the impossible this summer.

Japanese homemaker Maki Watanabe carefully pours into a plastic bottle the oil she used to cook her deep-fried aubergines, doing her part in her Tokyo kitchen for a national effort ​to ramp up production of eco-friendly jet fuel.

A bear has injured four people in a Japanese residential area in the latest case of attacks by the animals in the region.

A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan last year, and there has been a jump in sightings as the animals emerge hungry from hibernation.

Despite recent foreign-exchange intervention, the Japanese currency has weakened again to near the 160 threshold against the dollar, a level seen as a potential trigger for more government action.

By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) - Japan's real wages climbed 1.9% in April from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, marking a fourth consecutive monthly gain, as higher special payments boosted overall earnings and improved household purchasing power.

Japanese workers’ real wages increased for a fourth month, marking the longest stretch of gains in four years and bolstering the case for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates this month.