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'Ultimate terrifying staircase' in central Japan city g...

GERO, Gifu -- A flight of stairs in this central Japan city has become infamous ...

Thousands of fans celebrate life of legendary Grateful ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thousands of mourners gathered Saturday at San Francisco's...

Maternal RS virus vaccination uptake remains low in Jap...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The coverage rate of maternal vaccination against respiratory s...

Trump's Twin Cities immigration crackdown has made chao...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Work starts around sunrise for many of the federal officers ...

New opposition party pledges election policies that imp...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A newly launched Japanese opposition party will put forth polic...

Brazil's Lula hails historic EU-Mercosur deal ahead of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Europea...

A timeline of how the protests in Iran unfolded and the...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 ...

No sign of new protests in Iran as a hard-line cleric c...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave...

Social media platforms removed 4.7 million accounts aft...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Social media companies have revoked access to ab...

In their words: Greenlanders talk about Trump's desire ...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island...

Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he...

77-yr-old ex-PM Suga retiring to pass baton to younger ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Saturday announced his ...

Skiing: Horishima wins moguls at last World Cup event b...

WATERVILLE, New Hampshire (Kyodo) -- Japan's Ikuma Horishima secured his second ...

Figure skating: ISU may scrap short program, free skate...

SHEFFIELD, England (Kyodo) -- The International Skating Union is considering scr...

JICA provides Japanese-style housing to displaced Ukrai...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency has provided two Japanese-style housi...

Survivors commemorate major 1995 Kobe earthquake despit...

Survivors and residents on Saturday shared their grief and memories of the calam...