Netflix’s latest retro addition invites viewers into a special corner of Japan’s yankii genre, where the rough-and-tumble world of huge pompadours, modified uniforms and farcical high jinks is defined by kids being kids rather than kids being criminal. Before Sunrise studio’s now-world-famous sci...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese opposition party leaders on Saturday piled pressure on the farm minister over controversial remarks alluding to the past use
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Hanshin Tigers clinched back-to-back Central League pennants on Saturday as the second-place Yomiuri Giants lost 5-2 to the DeNA
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KOBE -- Former U.S. serviceman and Iraq War veteran Ryohei Yoshimoto-Manglona was among attendees at a memorial service held here in June for the vict
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- As strong August sunlight beat down outside, seven students at a private girls' secondary school in Tokyo gathered around a classroo
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SAKURA, Chiba -- Sakura City Hall in Chiba Prefecture stands on elevated ground about a 10-minute walk southwest of Keisei-Sakura Station. Its buildin
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SHANGHAI (Kyodo) -- Beloved Japanese manga "Chiikawa" featuring a gingerly tiny creature and its friends has warmed hearts and burned holes in the poc
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former longtime ruling coalition junior partner the Komeito party on Saturday formally selected Mitsunari Okamoto as its new leader,
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Yusuke Kusuhara and Shunsuke Nakagawa won the men's tennis doubles gold at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Friday, helping Japan sur
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TOKYO -- Japan is set to introduce stricter driving skills tests for older drivers after it was found that seniors who passed the current test had a h
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The total surpassed the previous record of 78 gold medals won by Japan at the 1966 Bangkok Games.
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