Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak ...

HIROSHIMA—Hiroshima city on May 15 decided to notify Taiwan about the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, breaking with its ...

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OSAKA—Certain restrooms for toddlers at the Osaka Kansai Expo were designed to let parents easily help out their kids, but ...

BEIJING--Chinese worker Liu Shengzun lost two jobs in just one month as U.S. import tariffs shot up to triple digits in April ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of ...

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The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremonies will be held on May 21 and 22, with hopes it will gain the prestige of the ...

NAHA--A U.S. military helicopter flying over northern Okinawa Prefecture accidentally dropped a bag containing a flammable ...

It’s a cold, wet morning and frigid air is seeping through the open doors of a college gymnasium in Tokyo. But that doesn’t ...

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「あんまり覚えていないんですけれども」。広島市南区の裵昭子（ペソジャ）さん（84）は80年前の8月6日、まだ4歳だった。両親は幼い頃に渡日した朝鮮人だったが、当時の朝鮮は日本の植民地支配下にあり、一家は「羽井（はねい）」という日本名を名乗り日本人とし ...