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OSAKA – Joining the worldwide movement to combat plastic waste, two international hotels in Osaka are moving toward paper straws. “We switched to paper straws on July 1, and the response from our cust... ( read original story ...)

A coach from AC Milan has been training members of the soccer team at Nagoya International Junior and Senior High School since April. Although the soccer club, which is part of the top Italian league ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced today that the results of joint research projects conducted since 2013 with two universities in Thailand, a major producer of natural rubber, were recent... ( read original story ...)

Japan and the European Union organized the meeting for Tuesday in Geneva, where vice and deputy ministers from Canada, the EU, Japan and South Korea will gather to talk about the punishing levies thre... ( read original story ...)

Japan and the European Union organized the meeting for Tuesday in Geneva, where vice and deputy ministers from Canada, the EU, Japan and South Korea will gather to talk about the punishing levies thre... ( read original story ...)

Financial support for this research came from Takata Foundation. The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Nagoya University, "Focusing on cases where the car and cyclist approac... ( read original story ...)

A tropical storm in Japan disrupted transportation and knocked out power to thousands of homes in its path as it headed west toward a region still recovering from devastating rains earlier this month. ... ( read original story ...)

"In recent days Tokyo and Japan [have] been like a sauna," said Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, calling the issue a major challenge in a July 23 news conference. She then laid out countermeasures that in... ( read original story ...)

People in Osaka were greeted with a spectacular sight when the sun went down on July 25. As the Japanese endure one of the hottest summer seasons to hit their country, people in Osaka were given a bri... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A tropical storm in Japan disrupted transportation and knocked out power to thousands of homes in its path as it headed west toward a region still recovering from devastating rains earlier th... ( read original story ...)

Greetings from Osaka and another edition of Where I’m At; a monthly update of what I’ve been up to and general site news. There are no direct flights from Luang Prabang to Saigon so I opted to stay in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics insist construction delays at two key venues will have no impact on preparations for the games, including test events. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government ... ( read original story ...)

There is no average ward population because there are no wards. Osaka, Japan is another city that is close in population size to Toronto. According to the city of Osaka website, there are 24 wards and ... ( read original story ...)

Growing up in Japan, Kum-hee Cho recalls learning that her grandparents came from South Korea and her "motherland" is North Korea, but she is neither North nor South Korean. Chongryon people are ethni... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – The world’s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Chiyo Miyako died Sunday. Her death was confirmed Friday by Kanagawa prefecture, her home state south of Tokyo. READ MORE: T... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed ... ( read original story ...)