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Middle East conflict dampens Japan industrial output in March

Middle East conflict dampens Japan industrial output in...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's industrial output in March edged down 0.5 percent from ...

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Tokyo stocks, yen hurt by surging oil, Middle East concerns

Tokyo stocks, yen hurt by surging oil, Middle East conc...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks fell and the yen was soft against the U.S. dollar ...

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Baseball: Sugano earns 3rd win as Rockies rout Reds

Baseball: Sugano earns 3rd win as Rockies rout Reds

TORONTO (Kyodo) -- Tomoyuki Sugano earned his third win of the season as the Col...

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Actor Ken Matsudaira performs signature samba dance in Yokohama to pray for sunny holidays

Actor Ken Matsudaira performs signature samba dance in ...

YOKOHAMA -- Actor Ken Matsudaira performed "Matsuken Samba II" from a platform 1...

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Hegseth faces a second day of Democrats grilling him over the Iran war

Hegseth faces a second day of Democrats grilling him ov...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will face a second day of gril...

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JAL reports highest sales of 2.01 trillion yen in FY 2025 on strong demand

JAL reports highest sales of 2.01 trillion yen in FY 20...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan Airlines Co. said Thursday its revenue rose 9.1 percent f...

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Mountain find leads to forgotten WWII crash; links U.S. and Japan families

Mountain find leads to forgotten WWII crash; links U.S....

A chance discovery of a metal fragment on a mountainside in southwestern Japan l...

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Japan surname rule spurs matchmaking events for same-name couples

Japan surname rule spurs matchmaking events for same-na...

Japan is widely regarded as the only country that requires married couples to sh...

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Tanker operated by Idemitsu Kosan passes through Strait of Hormuz

Tanker operated by Idemitsu Kosan passes through Strait...

A tanker operated by a subsidiary of Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co tran...

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Suspect at large after attacking boy, spraying 3 police officers in Tokyo

Suspect at large after attacking boy, spraying 3 police...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A man who barricaded himself inside his home in Tokyo after all...

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Taiwan eyes receiving Okinawa island patients in disasters

Taiwan eyes receiving Okinawa island patients in disasters

Taiwan is exploring the possibility of receiving patients from remote Okinawan i...

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Historical records show Japanese American role in postwar relief efforts

Historical records show Japanese American role in postw...

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- A group of Japanese Americans recently highlighted through h...

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Japan confectioner Chateraise launches chocolate made from Indonesian cacao

Japan confectioner Chateraise launches chocolate made f...

TOKYO -- Chateraise Co., one of Japan's largest confectionery makers, headquarte...

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TEPCO mulls issuing veto-rights share in alliance expansion plan

TEPCO mulls issuing veto-rights share in alliance expan...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is considering issui...

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Man beats boy, injures police before barricading himself in Tokyo home

Man beats boy, injures police before barricading himsel...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A man with a hammer struck a high school student on the head an...

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Ohtani strikes out 9 over 6 innings in 2nd pitching-only performance for Dodgers

Ohtani strikes out 9 over 6 innings in 2nd pitching-onl...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Shohei Ohtani struck out nine in six effective innings Tuesd...