When a 50-year-old bar owner in Osaka came home one day last year, he discovered that his wife of more than 20 years had moved out. She had taken her belongings without explicitly telling him she wanted a divorce. Now, he told Kansai TV, the apartment feels empty, the laundry piles up and he eats...
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Kazuo Yana resigned as Japan's agriculture minister after just 28 days in office. But voters in his home constituency, Tochigi's No. 3 district, remai
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It has been about two weeks since agriculture minister Kazuo Yana's remarks about cutting funding for municipalities whose leaders didn't back him in
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The Kyoto District Court will hand down its verdict on Oct. 16 in the case of the December 2013 shooting death of Takayuki Ohigashi, the then 72-year-
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index plunged further Thursday afternoon, falling over 5 percent, as selling of artificial intelligence- and semicon
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OSAKA -- Osaka Prefectural Police arrested four pet shop company officials Oct. 14 on suspicion of having dogs and cats for sale injected with infecti
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How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Oct. 15 to test your news knowledge. Ready?Which Japanese saying d
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday she has offered Arata Takebe the post of farm minister, as she seeks to minimize
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OSAKA -- Three in 10 families in Japan with small children are not happy with meals at home, a recent survey says.Read the full English articleRead th
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- U.S. semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc. said on Wednesday it will construct two new chip-making facilities in the state
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BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korea test-fired submarine-launched cruise missiles in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, but the test had no "adverse impact" on
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KYOTO (Kyodo) -- For more than 20 years, Koji Morimoto made his living flying small aircraft. These days, the 60-year-old spends his working hours at
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KOFU -- Indian residents in this central Japan city are helping bring "Kofu jewelry" to the world, working alongside local artisans. Most of the rough
