3 Naomi Osaka has begun the process to select Japanese citizenship in order to compete for Japan at next year's Tokyo Olympics, a source familiar with the matter confirmed Thursday.
Osaka, whose pare…

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KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 18:45 | All, Japan, LifestyleJapanese publishers decided Thursday to print more copies of Michael Faraday's "The Chemical History of a Candle," a day after Japan's Akira Yo…

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KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 15:00 | All, JapanThe world's first cloned cow has died of old age at a research center in central Japan at the age of 21 years and three months, local officials said Thurs…

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KYODO NEWS - 22 hours ago - 23:59 | All, WorldJapan's Akira Yoshino, America's John Goodenough and Britain's Stanley Whittingham won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their contri…

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Credited with the creation of commercially viable lithium-ion batteries, Yoshino said in an interview with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that his "curiosity" has been the main motivation for …

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KYODO NEWS - 20 hours ago - 02:15 | All, Japan[Source: Japan Meterological Agency]TOKYO - A powerful typhoon may rip through Japan's main island over the weekend, the weather agency warned Wednesday,…

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However, under Japan’s new commercial whaling policy, the country will concentrate on whaling minke and other whales off its own coast and leave their previous hunting grounds in international waters…

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In Japan’s second-largest city of Yokohama, the nerve center for hungry visitors is the West Gate area—just outside Yokohama Station’s west exit.
Hook a quick left after exiting through Yokohama Stat…

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Back in 2013, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (previously) won a competition to design a campus of timber buildings to house the headquarters of watch brands Swatch and Omega in Biel, Switzerland.
Now…

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A respected Japanese news organization has reported that the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to “foreigners”.
The news organization ran with the headline, “ノーベル文学賞は外国人に”, which translated …

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