Ken Watanabe didn’t just cross the bridge between Tokyo and Hollywood; he helped build it. Today, he is one of the industry’s most recognizable Japanese stars. From The Last Samurai and Inception to Godzilla, his performances have placed him alongside some of cinema’s biggest names, making him a...
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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
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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
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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
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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
