HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima -- "Kendama" traditional Japanese cup-and-ball toys made by Iwata Co., the only remaining manufacturer ...

Japan's weather agency on Saturday issued its highest landslide warning for Yakushima Island in the southwestern Japanese ...

There may be no foreign place where people encounter Japanese on street corners as often as in Taiwan. Signs reading ...

In 1953, Japanese military veterans who had returned from the Burma campaign in World War II and others formed Prefecture ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday rejected criticism that the revised Imperial House Law blocks female ...

PARIS (Kyodo) -- Toei Animation Co. has denied media reports that a theme park inspired by the Japanese manga and anime ...

The city of Osaka has recently been inundated with over a hundred inquiries after it installed a series of rectangular ...

A public high school in this northern Japan town of about 5,000 people on Hokkaido's Tokachi Plain is offering a ...

Ray Hoe left Japan to return to Singapore on July 18 after failing to renew his business manager visa following abrupt ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger ...

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