Tetsuya Chiba elevated manga into culture in Japan with works celebrating life
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
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 (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 -- 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
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- A man died at a construction site Thursday in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, while rescue efforts are underway for another m
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose Thursday, buoyed by advances in heavyweight technology share Advantest after an upward revision to its earnings for
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TOKYO -- In interparty talks on reforming Japan's House of Representatives electoral system, the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan is expected to conclude that underlying inflation has effectively reached its 2 percent target during a two-day pol
