Imagine the publisher of Pornhub.com being asked to address Harvard University undergraduates on the virtues of running a socially responsible business. That’s basically what happened in Japan this p…

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A Japanese research team, in cooperation with NHK, has succeeded in filming a fish swimming at a depth of 8,178 meters in the Pacific Ocean -- the deepest ever recorded.

Scientists believe the maximu…

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Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) on Wednesday showed to the press part of the site for a tunnel to be constructed under the Minami Alps huge mountain range as part of its magnetic levitation ultr…

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Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and Hirosaki University will launch a survey in the Tango district in northern Kyoto Prefecture to study the longevity of residents there.

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A Japanese city has added to a municipal park the name of the Finnish author of the popular Moomin children's book series.

The park in Hanno City, north of Tokyo, is now called the Tove Jansson Akebo…

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A Japanese machinery maker and a governmental organization say they have generated electricity using ocean currents.

IHI and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, or NEDO…

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A 5-year-old boy has survived a close call with a train in western Japan, suffering only a light injury to the head.

The drama unfolded in the city of Kyoto on Saturday.

Police say the train had slow…

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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Thursday it has received a record 322,581 suggestions from the public for the name of the female giant panda cub that was born at Ueno Zoo in the capital in Jun…

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Huge bonfires on mountains lit up Japan's old capital, Kyoto, on Wednesday night in an annual Buddhist ceremony.

One bonfire on a mountainside formed the shape of the Chinese character meaning "large…

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A type of dagger used by traditional hunters of the Tohoku region, who are known as matagi, is se…

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