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Fossil evidence shows presence of lions in ancient Japan

Lions lived in a wide area of the Japanese archipelago tens of thousands of year...

Japan's 'godless' lake warns of creeping climate change

The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that clima...

Japan, US agree to step up coordination for Takaichi's ...

MUNICH (Kyodo) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi agreed with U.S. S...

China's 9-day Lunar New Year holidays start with Japan ...

China's nine-day Lunar New Year holidays kicked off Sunday, with Japan dropping ...

12-year-old boy falls to his death from 18th floor of a...

A 12-year-old boy fell to his death from the 18th floor of an apartment building...

Come rain or shine, faith guides Tokyo's Weather Shrine

A Shinto shrine in Tokyo's Suginami Ward has become a place where visitors pray ...

Japan research vessel returns to port after collecting ...

A Japanese research vessel returned to a port in central Japan on Saturday after...

Worker dies in controlled blaze at limestone plateau pa...

A worker died on Saturday in a traditional mountain burning event at Akiyoshidai...

Meet your match? Spot the difference #184: Dozing at th...

Enjoy the Mainichi Shimbun's "spot the difference" puzzle. The rules are simple:...

Behind the scenes of Japan convenience store foreign st...

TOKYO -- Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has been conducting an "omotenashi (hospitality)...

Retro Japan: Man interned during WWII designed Kyoto ch...

KYOTO -- A Japanese American man who was interned during World War II later desi...

Bill Emmott: Japan's 'iron lady' Takaichi will begin to...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultan...

Olympics: Japanese curlers get Milan Cortina Games on t...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Kyodo) -- Skip Sayaka Yoshimura led Japan to its first...

Olympics: Japan's Nikaido adds ski jumping large hill s...

PREDAZZO, Italy (Kyodo) -- Japanese ski jumper Ren Nikaido won the men's large h...

1 dead, 2 injured in stabbing in Osaka, suspect arrested

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A 17-year-old boy was killed, and two other boys were injured a...