A student at a public junior high school in Japan's capital gave up playing softball after a coach verbally abused her, and ...

After 122 years in downtown L.A.’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, the country’s only Japanese-American daily newspaper, The Rafu ...

U.S. stocks rallied, and oil prices tumbled on hopes that Iran will not disrupt the global flow of crude, even with the ...

At the time, many observers remained skeptical, viewing the remarks as little more than diplomatic niceties. Yet, in pledging ...

When the Okura Tokyo first opened its doors in 1962, it was lauded as a modern icon and soon became known as the city's foremost luxury hotel. Designed by architect Yoshirō Taniguchi, the Okura ...

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Remote-controlled microflow using light-controlled state transitions within DNA condensates has been reported by scientists ...

Japanese trading-house Mitsubishi Corp. announced it will make an estimated $3.9 billon investment in solar energy development in the United States, reported Tokyo news agency Nikkei and Bloomberg.

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The Nihonbashi Bridge was considered the first reference node of the entire Japanese national road network at the time.

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