Some 1200 people lined up hours before dawn on a chilly February morning for a chance to see Ueno Zoo’s newest star, giant panda cub Xiang Xiang, reports the Japan Times. Xiang Xiang (pronounced ‘sha…

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The unified Korean flag under which North and South Korean athletes will march under at the upcoming Winter Olympics appears to show nothing more than the Korean peninsula in light blue against a whi…

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The annual snow festival has opened in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo.

The 69th Sapporo Snow Festival began in the capital city of Hokkaido on Monday at the main site in Odori Park and another…

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About 200 people gathered on Sunday in Tokyo to discuss better ways of feeding children from low-income and other disadvantaged families.

The subject of discussion was a free-meal program called Kodo…

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Who would have known that the Okinawan language found a home in Brazil just when it was fading back in Japan? BBC Brasil's Leticia Mori has this report from Sao Paulo.

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A year after its tiny, experimental rocket failed to reach orbit a year ago, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched (via Engadget) an experimental rocket into orbit th…

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Researchers in Japan say they have developed a simple technique to detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear.

The National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, or NCGG, and precision machin…

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A court has decided that a former civilian worker at a US base in Okinawa must compensate the family of a Japanese woman he has been convicted of killing.

The Naha district court on Wednesday approve…

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A group of lawyers says it is preparing a lawsuit against virtual currency exchange Coincheck in connection with the computer hack that stole a massive amount of digital currency last week.

The team …

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In 2016, Peter Tieryas published his debut novel United States of Japan which ended up on our best books of the year list for 2016. Tieryas has described the influence that Philip K. Dick’s The Man i…

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