The Tadami River in Japan's Oku-Aizu region is famous for its billowing mist from June to September, for those lucky enough ...

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Otemachi Tower was finished in 2014. About one-third of its 10,000-square-meter site is green space. The site has trees that stay green all year and trees that lose leaves. The company says it has 208 ...

Yokozuna Onosato maintained the outright lead at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, improving to 8-1 with a ...

Seiya Suzuki broke his home run drought for the Chicago Cubs with a mammoth solo blast in Sunday's 9-1 win over the Cincin ...

A large typhoon was moving toward eastern Japan's Pacific coast on Monday, with the weather agency warning of heavy rain, strong wind ...

A large typhoon was moving toward eastern Japan's Pacific coast Monday, bringing heavy rain that triggered landslides in Chiba and Ka ...