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Officially, Japan recycles 84 percent of the plastic it collects ... the producers of the in-depth news show “Closeup Gendai Plus” asked one of their directors to live without any plastic for three ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Japan’s culture of cute makes no exceptions for poop. It gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama near Tokyo. Here, the poop is artificial, nothing like what would be in a ... ( read original story ...)

In fact, demand is already so incredible that according to the New York Daily News, organizers are being forced to plan a second ticket lottery for residents of Japan. Saying that the demand is ... ( read original story ...)

“The elderly are actually signing up for Eats couriers,” Khosrowshahi told Bloomberg News. “Eats has been a huge success for us in Japan. It is going to be a very effective introduction to the Uber ... ( read original story ...)

said David Kaye, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression and a clinical professor of law at the University of California at Irvine, who has raised concerns about the ... ( read original story ...)

A foundation set up to compensate victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery has been formally dissolved, South Korean officials said Friday, the latest chapter in a bitter dispute over the two countries' ... ( read original story ...)

Not a single one is from Japan, its own backyard. That may be because the pickings are slim: While the U.S. has 179 unicorns, China 93, and India 18, Japan has just two, according to CB Insights. How ... ( read original story ...)

The bad news is that — despite a last-minute change ... Demand is being driven by the 35 million people who live in Greater Tokyo, and is in sharp contrast to the last Olympics in Rio de Janeiro ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japan’s culture of cute makes no exceptions for poop. It gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama near Tokyo. Here, the poop is artificial, nothing like what would be in a ... ( read original story ...)

When you think of the Nagoya tournament what first comes to mind? For many it’s something like the scene in “Fight Club” where the narrator tries not to think of the words “searing” or “flesh.” No ... ( read original story ...)

Any discussion of who will emerge victorious in Nagoya this month has to start with the veteran yokozuna, but rather than an era defined by a rivalry, we are now deep into sumo’s version of the ... ( read original story ...)

Both sides showed no signs of backing down in the trade dispute. Kyodo News Agency reported on Tuesday that Japan was considering expanding its export controls to more items bound for South Korea. ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Overwhelmed by unprecedented demand ... let down last month when they came away empty-handed in a lottery for next year's Olympics. The bad news is that - despite a last-minute change of plans ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese authorities have urged more than one million people across the Japanese Island of Kyushu to evacuate due to heavy rain which poses a threat to life. Residents in parts of Kagoshima and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Chunks of meat from the first whales caught since Japan resumed commercial whaling this week have fetched "celebration prices" at auction. The meat sold Thursday for up to 15,000 yen ($140) ... ( read original story ...)

Abe is also highlighting his call to revise the post-war constitution to further legitimize Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF), as its military is known. "We have pledged in our party platform to ... ( read original story ...)