New 'democratic reform' party to be launched after opposition split
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's main opposition party officially split Wednesday, paving the way for some of its members to form a new party for "democratic
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's main opposition party officially split Wednesday, paving the way for some of its members to form a new party for "democratic
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TOKYO (AP) -- The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan surpassed a record 100,000 this year, the latest government figures show, underscoring t
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YOKOHAMA -- Japanese major construction company Kajima Corp. on Sept. 14 unveiled to the media for the first time the construction site of a wooden to
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KYOTO -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, aged 88, has completed a monumental 92-panel series of paintings for the main hall of Ryoan
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September is a month for raising awareness and understanding of children battling cancer. The "Gold September Campaign," in which buildings and other
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday on position adjustments ahead of the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting.The 225-issue N
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Onosato suffered his first loss at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday, while ozeki Kotozakura became the only unb
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's police agency on Wednesday launched an expert panel to consider allowing more foreign nationals to work in the private-sector
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan could see the approach of a typhoon during a five-day holiday period starting this weekend, with the weather agency announcing
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese man wanted for his role in the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane may have died in North Korea, a source with knowle
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USHIKU, Ibaraki -- The government of this eastern Japan city known as the home of Ushiku Chateau, Japan's first full-scale winemaking facility, is lau
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IWAKI, Japan (Kyodo) -- A Japanese man who has spent more than a decade supporting a remote Nepalese village devastated by an earthquake in 2015 is se
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HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima -- Childhood leukemia kept Maria Miki away from the ballet she loved for about a year when she was in junior high school. Now a
