VideoJapanese fire fighters battled a massive fire that consumed an historic Japanese castle early on Thursday morning.
Shuri Castle, which was originally built 500 years ago, is a Unesco World Herit…

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Nintendo’s third-quarter earnings are out, and they reveal that the company sold 4.8 million Switch consoles between July and September, a year-on-year increase of just over 50 percent.
This quarter …

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• Team’s base before final is close to Chofu airport • Drone-shot footage used by coaches to review training sessionsEngland’s preparations for the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday hit a glitch with…

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TOKYO/OSAKA (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.T) second-quarter operating profit more than doubled, blowing past analyst estimates, on strong demand for its Switch console.
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KYODO NEWS - 5 hours ago - 14:36 | All, Japan, LifestyleA huge replica of Godzilla will open next summer at an anime theme park in western Japan, the operator said Thursday.
The "Godzilla Interceptio…

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By GaijinPot Blog Oct 31, 2019 1 min readA slightly mummified corpse greeted police officers when they stormed room 1272 of the Marroad International Hotel back in the late ‘90s.
Hotel staff had been…

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Tokyo — Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up…

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Police have found a body during a search for a man who fell while livestreaming his climb of Japan’s Mount Fuji.
Rescuers found the body on Wednesday at an altitude of about 9,800ft up the 12,389ft m…

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Photos: Rugby World Cup 2019 in pictures Wales takes on South Africa in the second semifinal in Yokohama Sunday.
Hide Caption 13 of 192Photos: Rugby World Cup 2019 in pictures Fans react during the R…

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KYODO NEWS - 4 hours ago - 21:42 | Sports, Rugby2019, All, KumamotoA nightclub in southwestern Japan filed a criminal complaint Wednesday against players from the Uruguay team for the Rugby World Cup…

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