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Australia is in talks with Japan, South Korea, Singapore and South Pacific nations on reopening travel as coronavirus infections ease, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday. Australia shut its ... ( read original story ...)

Former world number one Kim Clijsters, US Open 2020 champion Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic, who will be playing the men's singles final against Rafael Nadal on Sunday, reacted to the sensatinal win ... ( read original story ...)

Iga Swiatek won the 2020 French Open and created history along the way. Naturally, the tennis community poured in wishes for the Polish star! ( read original story ...)

Tokyo on Sunday opened its first major community hub for LGBTQ people this month, part of a pre-Olympics project that campaigners hope will tackle stigma and raise awareness of discrimination. ( read original story ...)

"I was born in the city of Konan in Aichi prefecture and worked at a company in Nagoya before founding Collabo Style in Tokyo in 2013. Because I wanted to contribute to the local economy, I had ... ( read original story ...)

Nobutaka Machimura, Japan's minister of foreign affairs,speaks at the 60th General Assembly held at the United Nations on September 14, 2005 in New York City. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff) ... ( read original story ...)

Brazilian winger Mateus grabbed a late winner as fifth-placed Nagoya Grampus won 1-0 at home against third-placed Cerezo Osaka in th ... ( read original story ...)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest movie, which recently won him the award for best director at the Venice Film Festival, is a thriller animated by the ghosts of Japan’s ghastly wartime experiments. ( read original story ...)

Starting with the Tsurumaru department store on the corner, there was a clothes shop, kimono store, musical instrument store, watch store, movie posters on the wall behind the old lady selling boiled ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Maritime Self-defense Force conducted anti-submarine drills in the South China Sea on Oct. 9, deploying three vessels including a helicopter aircraft carrier and a submarine, according to the ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA -- About 60% of novel coronavirus patients in the western Japan prefecture of Osaka whose deaths were confirmed by Sept. 15 passed away without being categorized as having severe symptoms. Such ... ( read original story ...)

The site in Osaka Prefecture dates to the 5th century and is known as the mausoleum of Emperor Nintoku, though debate continues over who was actually buried there. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Tropical Storm Chan-hom brought powerful winds and rain to southern Japan on Saturday, with the weather bureau warning of landslides and flooding in most of the country. The storm, ... ( read original story ...)

Olympic officials have expressed confidence next year’s Tokyo Games will go ahead but admitted they will look unlike any Games that have gone before. ( read original story ...)

It’s the second straight year that the Tokyo Marathon — one of six annual World Marathon Majors — has been altered amid the coronavirus. This year’s Tokyo Marathon was held as scheduled on March 1, ... ( read original story ...)

Using the model Orobanchaceae parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum, scientists from Nagoya University and other research institutes from Japan have discerned the molecular mechanisms underlying ... ( read original story ...)