Japan's boosting of southwest defenses to be easier under new Okinawa gov.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is likely to see smoother sailing in its efforts to bolster its defenses in its southwestern region after the new Okinawa gover
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is likely to see smoother sailing in its efforts to bolster its defenses in its southwestern region after the new Okinawa gover
library
On Nov. 1, a bookstore will return to Gintengai, a shopping arcade in central Matsuyama, western Japan, for the first time in 4 1/2 years. The Honmaru
schools
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government has asked Japanese-language schools nationwide to consider using alternatives to the commonly used exam known
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks opened higher Monday, tracking Wall Street gains late last week on expectations that tensions between the United States
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ROGERS, Arkansas (Kyodo) -- Japanese golfer Yuna Nishimura completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Arkansas Championship on Sunday, capturing her maid
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NARA -- The annual Uneme Festival was held around Sarusawa Pond in this ancient Japanese capital on the night of Sept. 25, under a harvest moon.Althou
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TOKYO (Kyodo) --So Kuramoto, a Japanese screenwriter best known for the drama "Kita no kuni kara" (From the northern country), died earlier this month
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Shipments of domestic soy sauce fell to 670,159 kiloliters in 2025, the lowest level in 75 years and roughly half of the peak in 197
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ICHIKAWA, Chiba -- Japan's only pipe organ faithfully modeled on 18th-century instruments from the era of composer Johann Sebastian Bach has been unve
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OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Raccoon damage is rising sharply across Japan, with agricultural losses nearing 700 million yen ($4.4 million) a year as the invasive
safety
KOBE -- About 20,000 adult golden fire ants, along with some 20 queens and an unspecified number of larvae, were found at a container yard on Port Isl
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TOKYO -- The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet climbed 4 percentage points from a previous survey to 45% in a natio
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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Former Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka, who stepped down earlier this month after admitting he bullied and verbally assaulted sub
