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S. Korea top court upholds forced labor compensation or...
SEOUL (Kyodo) -- South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court de...
News in Easy English: Big sign in Nara Park teaches tou...
NARA -- A big new sign for Nara Park shows foreign tourists how to behave around...
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado greets supporters ...
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado appeared ...
Forbes ranks Japan PM Takaichi 3rd in list of world's m...
NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was ranked the third ...
The Mainichi News Quiz: What change is Japan pondering ...
How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz ...
Christmas tree decorated with lost-and-found items set ...
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- A Christmas tree decorated with unclaimed lost-and-found item...
The painting that introduced 'Star Wars' to the world f...
(AP) -- The painting that introduced "Star Wars" to the world nearly 50 years ag...
Japan Photo Journal: Christmas tree placed underwater a...
The waters near Osezaki, a popular diving spot off Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, ...
Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, ...
LONDON (AP) -- Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make...
Ocean warmed by climate change fed intense rainfall and...
BENGALURU, India (AP) -- Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate chang...
Emotional evacuees recount moments they fled Thailand-C...
SURIN, Thailand (AP) -- Amnat Meephew had just enough time to pack up his clothe...
Japanese scientists Sakaguchi, Kitagawa receive Nobel p...
Japanese scientists Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa on Wednesday received N...
Shogi association apologizes to female champion, says i...
The Japan Shogi Association apologized Wednesday to six-title-holding women's pl...
Passenger ferry in western Japan to run autonomously in...
A passenger ferry operating between Okayama and Shodoshima Island in western Jap...
120 guests evacuated from Kyoto hotel after portable ba...
Some 120 guests staying at a hotel in Kyoto were temporarily evacuated after a c...
Schools reopen after M7.5 quake amid alert for another ...
Most of the schools in northeastern and northern Japan reopened Wednesday follow...
