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Tornado that hit Shizuoka area one of strongest on reco...
A tornado that struck a central Japan city last week during Typhoon Peipah was o...
Baseball: Shohei Ohtani homers twice off Tomoyuki Sugan...
BALTIMORE, Maryland (Kyodo) -- Shohei Ohtani crushed his 47th and 48th home runs...
Baseball: Ohtani homers twice off Sugano as Dodgers bea...
BALTIMORE, Maryland (Kyodo) -- Shohei Ohtani crushed his 47th and 48th home runs...
Beijing sanctions Japan lawmaker Hei Seki over anti-Chi...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China said Monday it has imposed sanctions on Hei Seki, an up...
Kin urge renewed focus on longstanding N. Korea abducti...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea de...
Tokyo stocks up as Japan PM decision to resign spurs ec...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose sharply Monday morning as buying was spurred ...
Japan's economic growth revised up to 2.2% in April-Jun...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's economy grew an annualized real 2.2 percent in the Apri...
Total lunar eclipse observed across wide areas of Japan
TOKYO -- A total lunar eclipse, where the full moon is completely obscured by th...
WWII ceremony honors Taiwanese soldiers who served for ...
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Kyodo) -- A ceremony was held in southern Taiwan on Sunday to...
Japan business lobby chief describes Ishiba resignation...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yoshinobu Tsutsui, head of Japan's biggest business lobby, on S...
Senior lawmakers begin moves to succeed Ishiba in LDP r...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Senior politicians in Japan's ruling party on Monday began maki...
Technical staff member at Saga police fired for imprope...
SAGA (Kyodo) -- Police in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, said Monday they ...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Tsukuba Express rail...
The Tsukuba Express (TX), a railway line connecting Akihabara Station in Tokyo's...
Japanese university to open school on cosmetics
In a rare move, a national university in southwestern Japan will establish a sch...
N Korean defectors in Japan shed light on life they lef...
A man whose early life in North Korea was so bleak that he was prepared to be sh...