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KYODO NEWS - 9 hours ago - 18:51 | Sports, News, All, JapanDue to concerns over extreme heat during next summer's Tokyo Olympics, local organizers on Friday tested whether artificial s…
KYODO NEWS - 10 hours ago - 17:55 | Lifestyle, All, JapanAlmost 70 percent of married women in Japan believe that same-sex marriage should be legalized in the country, a government sur…
Women centenarians vastly outnumber the men, accounting for 88.1 percent of the total 71,238. Kane Tanaka, a 116-year-old resident of Fukuoka, is the oldest Japanese. Chitetsu Wat…
By Matthew Carland, KYODO NEWS - 16 hours ago - 12:04 | Lifestyle, All, WorldA team of five Japanese won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize on Thursday for their study estimating the daily …
The number of households in Chiba Prefecture affected by the outage remained approximately 280,000 as of 9 p.m., compared with more than 380,000 Wednesday evening, according to Tokyo Electric Power C…
KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 22:45 | All, Japan[Supplied photo]TOKYO - Yahoo Japan Corp. said Thursday it will make online fashion retailer Zozo Inc. a subsidiary for about 400 billion y…
On the opening day of the four-day annual extravaganza, esports competitive gaming tournaments held amid heated live comments also attracted crowds, who closely watched and applauded the players…
KYODO NEWS - 11 hours ago - 18:36 | Sports, AllGrand champion Kakuryu suffered his first loss of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday, falling behind undefeated co-leaders seki…
The Okura Tokyo has reused much of the original decor from its old main building's lobby, which was considered a Japanese modernist masterpiece, for its new lobby area. The hotel, previousl…
KYODO NEWS - 13 hours ago - 16:24 | Lifestyle, AllAn American man who married his same-sex Japanese partner in the United States sued the Japanese government on Thursday, demanding it …
