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Supreme Court ruling offers little relief for Republica...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For a few hours on Friday, congressional Republicans seemed t...

Global leaders and businesses pore over fallout of more...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Governments and companies around the world scrambled ...

Social media can be addictive even for adults, but ther...

(AP) -- Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigaret...

Japan's traditional 'naked festival' leaves 3 unconscious

OKAYAMA (Kyodo) -- A traditional Japanese festival known for thousands of nearly...

Japan's Kumamoto Pref. boosts honeybee loss measures wi...

KUMAMOTO -- The Kumamoto Prefectural Government is boosting its honeybee shortag...

Japan aims for 32% expansion of used-goods market by 2030

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government plans to expand the market for used goo...

3 bodies found after fire near Tokyo, children feared a...

CHIBA (Kyodo) -- Three bodies were found after a house fire in the east of Tokyo...

The British royal family faces its worst crisis in gene...

LONDON (AP) -- King Charles III' s brother was under arrest. Police were searchi...

Japan's traditional kimonos are being repurposed in cre...

The kimono, that elaborate, delicate wrap-around garment worn by geisha and samu...

Manga 'Jujutsu Kaisen' fuels demand for Japan folklore ...

Two exhibition catalogs produced by a folklore museum in northeastern Japan have...

Japan to ban in-flight use of power banks from April

Japan's transport ministry has notified airlines that it will ban the use of pow...

Fans flock to Chiba zoo to see baby monkey Punch

Dozens of fans flocked to a Japanese zoo on Friday to catch a glimpse of a baby ...

Man dies after missed dispatch delays ambulance respons...

A response to an emergency call in Hokkaido was delayed by about eight minutes a...

2 dead after cargo ship collides with fishing boat off ...

Two people were dead after a cargo ship collided with a sport fishing boat off M...

Haiku in English: Feb. 21, 2026

battle fieldrising back to the skysnowflakes--Irina Guliaeva (Moscow, Russia)Sel...

Living in Japan -- An exchange student's view: Sendai's...

I begin by stating matter-of-factly that everyone needs "The Nippon Experience" ...