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Crude oil briefly tops $111 on Middle East risks, highe...
NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Crude oil futures briefly surpassed $111 per barrel in New Y...
Japan struggles to curb foreigner backcountry ski rescu...
Local authorities and resorts in Japan's winter destinations are struggling to p...
26th anniversary of fatal Hibiya line subway crash obse...
Senior Tokyo Metro officials gathered at a memorial site at Meguro in Tokyo on S...
Baseball: Seiya Suzuki homers twice as Japan beats S. K...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Seiya Suzuki blasted two home runs while Shohei Ohtani and Masa...
Hokkaido police issue manga alerts as more foreign back...
SAPPORO -- There have been a series of accidents in Hokkaido involving foreign t...
Worried about getting in the bath after having a baby? ...
TOKYO -- While new mothers are typically advised to only shower until their one-...
Trump encourages Latin American leaders to use military...
DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States ...
Retro Japan: Aichi Pref. community center features char...
ICHINOMIYA, Aichi -- A community center building in this central Japan city feat...
Football: Players call for equal prize money for Women'...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- With the Women's Asian Cup under way in Australia, the players'...
Opinion: When big business ducks taxes, women pick up t...
By Magdalena Sepulveda, Director of the U.N. Research Institute for Social Devel...
Figure skating: Shimada wins record 4th straight junior...
TALLINN, Estonia (Kyodo) -- Japan's Mao Shimada won her fourth straight figure s...
U.S. helicopter lands at Okinawa baseball field during ...
A U.S. military UH-1 helicopter made an emergency landing at a baseball field in...
Tohoku gaining favor as relocation place 15 years after...
Three prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, ravaged by a massive...
Aeon opens 1st 'Food Style' store in Tokyo amid intensi...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Aeon Co. opened the first of its new "Food Style" brand...
World's 1st space-brewed sake mash arrives in Japan
The fermenting mash used to brew sake in space as part of a world-first initiati...














