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Japanese town sours on crowds coming to see cherry blos...
The trouble started with a beautiful photo. Social media was soon awash with the...
1 in 5 Japanese in their late teens see immigration as ...
Some 19.2 percent of teenagers aged 17 to 19 in Japan consider the "increase of ...
Workman dies after falling from power transmission tower
A 44-year-old man died after he fell about 13 meters to the ground while working...
Japan mulls extra 20 days worth of oil release with Hor...
Japan is considering an additional release of its oil reserves providing 20 days...
What does the Iran ceasefire deal mean? It depends on w...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A tenuous ceasefire deal in the Iran war allowing negotiation...
Proposed citizenship rule for hiring in Mie sparks cont...
A proposal by a local government in central Japan to reinstate a rule requiring ...
Ocean protections clash with mining pressure in Indones...
MISOOL, Indonesia (AP) -- There is an explosion of color beneath the surface in ...
Solitary mangrove creates striking views on Ishigaki Is...
ISHIGAKI, Okinawa -- A Mainichi Shimbun reporter visited Ishigaki Island, locate...
Tokyo stocks fall in morning on profit-taking, ceasefir...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks fell Thursday morning on profit-taking following t...
Baseball: Ohtani makes quality start, ties Ichiro's on-...
TORONTO (Kyodo) -- Shohei Ohtani allowed just one unearned run over six innings,...
Cherry blossom viewing starts at Japan Mint in Osaka
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- An annual cherry blossom viewing event began Thursday at the Ja...
Artemis II astronauts follow Apollo tradition of naming...
HOUSTON (AP) -- Lunar love knows no bounds.Now hurtling home from the moon, the ...
30,000 rally near Diet as protests against Constitution...
TOKYO -- Large-scale demonstrations opposing moves to revise the Constitution ar...
Court overturn of Japanese school's decertification ove...
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- A high court decision to overturn a central government order ...
Opinion: Donald Trump doesn't understand nuclear semant...
By James ReidIn 1945, Kantaro Suzuki, then premier of the Imperial Japanese Empi...
