Paralympic silver medalist dies after road accident in Okinawa
NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Wheelchair racer Hirokazu Ueyonabaru, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, died on Saturday after being seri
NAHA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Wheelchair racer Hirokazu Ueyonabaru, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, died on Saturday after being seri
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Amid a nationwide shift in which women's universities in Japan are either going coeducational or closing due to the country's shrink
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A major Japan-U.S. joint drill to start in October is expected to involve the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's long-range missile
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- French chanson and Buddhist sutras may seem an unlikely combination, but for 87-year-old priest Miruo Nakano, they have become a way
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TOKYO -- Foreigners are increasingly being caught attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into Japan. The cases involve stimulants, marijuana and etomidat
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LONDON (Kyodo) -- An unusual mix of stories about alienation, feminism, cats and coffee shops is charming foreign audiences as a boom in translated Ja
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Japan's 15-year-old sensations Mizuho Hasegawa and Izuru Nagahara won the skateboarding park events on Friday as the host bagged eig
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K. plans to introduce its first ship powered by a hydrogen fuel cell system around May
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- A fire broke out on Saturday at the Nagoya TV Tower, a landmark in the central Japanese city of Nagoya, but there has been no report
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Japan's Ichitaka Yamashita won the men's marathon at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, clocking 2 hours, 10 minutes, 49 seco
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Japan's 11-year-old Yuki Kurihara, the youngest member of the national delegation, won the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games puzzle final on
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Onosato was beaten for the second straight day Saturday while ozeki Aonishiki won to set up a fascinating finale to the Autu
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TOKYO -- On-location shooting is essential for films, television dramas and other visual productions, bringing realism and depth to stories through th
