The industrial city of Kani, Gifu, has seen a constant rise in its foreign population. For more than 20 years the city’s Bara Kyōshitsu, or “rose classroom,” program has worked to integrate newcomers into the local community and education system with patient instruction in the Japanese language a...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday she held online talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, during which
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TOKYO -- Foreigners are increasingly being caught attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into Japan. The cases involve stimulants, marijuana and etomidat
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Having obtained ample rest and gathered information in Nikko, Isabella Bird finally set out for the "unexplored interior" on June 24, 1878. From this
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GIFU (Kyodo) -- A 25-year-old man was arrested on the spot on Saturday for allegedly throwing his two daughters off the balcony of his sixth-floor apa
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LONDON (Kyodo) -- An unusual mix of stories about alienation, feminism, cats and coffee shops is charming foreign audiences as a boom in translated Ja
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K. plans to introduce its first ship powered by a hydrogen fuel cell system around May
