For visitors to Hokkaido, Sapporo is a natural starting point. A bustling city surrounded by mountains and nature, it offers all the pleasures of a big city — world-class food, lively nightlife, museums, markets and shopping — while also serving as a gateway to the rest of the island. In winter,...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended mixed Thursday, with investors catching up with gains in artificial intelligence-related shares made during Japan'
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NAGOYA, Japan (AP) -- Shin Ohashi of Japan set a world record in the 200-meter breaststroke on Thursday at the Asian Games, swimming a time of 2 minut
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's indirect defense of the International Criminal Court in her U.N. General Assembly debut expo
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Optical lattice clocks developed by a Japanese scientist have emerged as a leading candidate in discussions by an international body
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Onosato kept his two-win lead at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday as ozeki Aonishiki, new sekiwake Fujinokawa an
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CHIBA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The death toll from Typhoon Dujuan, which barreled by eastern Japan earlier this week, rose to 11 on Thursday, local authoriti
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False and misleading information and defamatory attacks on social media during elections in Japan are becoming an increasingly serious problem. Rather
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- When Katie Yamasaki looks at the New York skyline, she still misses the Twin Towers designed by her grandfather, Japanese-American
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TOKYO -- Rising land prices and soaring condominium costs are drawing growing attention to fixed-term leasehold condominiums in Tokyo, which allow res
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday, buoyed by buying across a broad range of sectors, particularly artificial intelligence- and semico
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Another typhoon was moving closer to Japan from south of Okinawa on Thursday, just days after Typhoon Dujuan wreaked havoc in areas n
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TOYOTA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Japan defeated China in the men's team table tennis final Thursday at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, clinching its first gold
