JR East’s new four-legged landscapers are proving to be a hit
A pair of young goats are part of a new environmentally friendly initiative to tackle overgrowth near Tokyo's Yotsuya Station.
A pair of young goats are part of a new environmentally friendly initiative to tackle overgrowth near Tokyo's Yotsuya Station.
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CEBU, Philippines (Kyodo) -- Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi pledged Thursday at a regional defense forum to uphold the country's exclusive
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's unemployment rate in September fell to 2.4 percent from 2.5 percent in the previous month, the Ministry of Internal Affairs a
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KATHMANDU (Kyodo) -- The Japanese Embassy in Kathmandu said Thursday that two bodies found on a mountain in central Nepal earlier this month were thos
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan plans to gradually reduce subsidies for gasoline and other fuels from December, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday, am
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A luxury watch worth an estimated 46 million yen ($291,000) was stolen from a shop in Tokyo's Nakano Ward on Thursday, police said, a
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OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A gauge on the control panel crept upward as students watched closely inside a university nuclear research facility in western Japan.
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TOKYO -- Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba passed away on Oct. 22 at the age of 87, having remained a central figure in the manga world, with his lo
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TOKYO -- Grapes hang from vines on the rooftop of a high-rise building in central Tokyo, while rice stalks sway in a paddy. Major developer Mori Build
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A city assembly member in central Japan was ordered on Thursday to pay damages to award-winning author Li Kotomi for revealing her ge
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese airline ANA Holdings Inc. said Thursday its net profit for the April-September period fell 11.8 percent from a year earlier
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TOKYO (AP) -- Naomi Osaka, seeded No. 7 and playing before home fans in Japan, was knocked out of the Pan Pacific Open on Thursday by Mia Pohankova of
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- A team of researchers from Japanese and U.S. universities has identified a gene in yellow fever mosquitos key to the mechanism of ma
