Canadian Nisei baseball team digs up postwar roots
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Stories about the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese-Canadian baseball team that became popular in Canada before being disbanded during Worl
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Stories about the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese-Canadian baseball team that became popular in Canada before being disbanded during Worl

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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of the Burger King hamburger chain in Japan on Thursday became the latest company to report a data breach, with 11.18 mi
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Russian intelligence authorities have detained a male reporter from Japan's Hokkaido Shimbun Press stationed in Sakhalin Oblast in the Far East, trans
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SATSUMASENDAI, Kagoshima -- This southwest Japan city has unveiled a basic development plan to promote an industrial cluster centered on one of Japan'
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday appointed Arata Takebe as her new farm minister, seeking to minimize disruption to
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TOBA, Mie -- Poor oyster growth in this central Japan city has left farmers without market-ready oysters at the start of the harvesting season, forcin
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's health ministry is warning people heading to the mountains this fall to beware of poisonous mushrooms that closely resemble e
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mizuho Financial Group Inc., one of Japan's three megabanks, said Thursday it will fully launch a three-month program next month to t
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear plant in northeastern Japan will be halted around Saturday due to a small amount of water le
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The Japanese word "dasai," meaning "uncool" in English, is defined in Kodansha Ltd.'s Japanese language "Shin Gogen Jiten" (New etymological dictionar
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BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korea test-fired submarine-launched cruise missiles in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, but the launches posed no danger to nei
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schools
YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Japanese high school pitching phenom Shoki Oda announced Thursday he will skip the Nippon Professional Baseball draft and begin pu
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index suffered the third-largest single-day point drop on Thursday, losing over 3,300 points, as selling of artifici
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