Raccoons spread into Japanese cities as farm damage mounts
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Raccoon damage is rising sharply across Japan, with agricultural losses nearing 700 million yen ($4.4 million) a year as the invasive
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 -- The Pacific coastal Kugenuma district of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, has topped the ranking for the first time in an annual survey of grea
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Takuma Inoue defended his WBC bantamweight belt by beating ex-kickboxer and challenger Tenshin Nasukawa by unanimous decision in thei
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Subway operator Tokyo Metro Co. said Sunday that about 59,000 email addresses of its rewards program members may have been compromise
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TOKYO -- While still considered feminine by some, skin care has gradually become more commonplace among men, particularly among younger generations, i
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THIMPHU (Kyodo) -- At 2,300 meters above sea level in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, making an authentic bowl of Japanese ramen presented an unexpec
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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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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Paris Olympic champion Haruka Kitaguchi took women's javelin silver Sunday at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games following a record-breaki
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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
