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GENEVA (AP) -- At least 139 people, including children, have died after a boat c...

Judo: Japan reclaims 8th world championships mixed team...

BAKU (Kyodo) -- Japan reclaimed its eighth mixed team title at the world judo ch...

France's far-left presidential candidate cheers Gen Z s...

PARIS (AP) -- French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon on Sunda...

Tennis: Retired Nishikori shares fond memories with ico...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's recently retired former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori enjoy...

Easy Japanese news in translation: Akita dog reappointe...

At JR Odate Station in the city of Odate, Akita Prefecture, the birthplace of th...

JR East to launch new 'teppay' digital payment service ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- East Japan Railway Co. will launch a new digital payment servic...

Praise pours in for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pil...

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Advocates of human rights and international justice cheered...

Baseball: Murakami strikes out 4 times as White Sox los...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Kyodo) -- Munetaka Murakami struck out swinging four times as t...

Japan PM's call at UN for cutting WWII 'enemy' clause m...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is calling for the delet...

India cracks down on youth protests as anger grows agai...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Indian authorities deployed a sweeping security crackdown acro...

12 killed and over 300 hurt in latest attack on Riyadh ...

CAIRO (AP) -- The latest attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia's c...

Taiwan's Lai urges defense boost, accuses China of chan...

TAIPEI (Kyodo) -- Taiwan President Lai Ching-te called during an address Saturda...

Isabella Bird's 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan': An awful in...

In late June 1878, Isabella Bird and her party traveled upstream along the Ojika...

JR Kyushu lines fully restored 74 days after Kumamoto q...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- JJR Kyushu's train lines were fully restored Saturday...

JR Hokkaido sightseeing train makes final run in Kushir...

KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo) -- JR Hokkaido's popular sightseeing Kushiro Shitsugen No...

Japanese brewer hopes 'wobbly' beer glass will spur res...