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Tokyo Olympics medallist Kazuma Kaya said Japan would field its strongest men's gymnastics squad yet at Paris 2024, where his only goal was to win the team title to improve on the silver medal he helped nab at the last Games. ( read original story ...)

Smoke billowing out from the former nightclub during the height of the fire on Thursday Pic: Daniella Areas Mendes-da-Cruz Two years ago the centre of Prest ( read original story ...)

Juiki Tatsuyoshi of Osaka Teiken Boxing Gym, a son of former legendary World Boxing Council bantamweight champion Joic […] ... ( read original story ...)

And don't just stop in Tokyo. Take the train to Kyoto for Imperial Palaces, Geishas, and 500-year-old Kaiseki cuisine. ( read original story ...)

Comments come during an extraordinary meeting of the Wada Foundation Board to discuss the fallout from the revelation that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for TMZ ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. ( read original story ...)

American player posted three solid wins at the recent Italian Open, cementing a post-baby comeback begun at the Brisbane International in January Osaka captured the world's attention in 2018 when she ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's invasive raccoon problem has worsened over the last decade despite efforts to eradicate the species. Raccoons are not native to Japan and arrived in the 1970s as pets. ( read original story ...)

A running race up a ski-jump ramp has drawn about 1,700 entrants, including teenagers and people in their 70s. The event took place on Saturday in Sapporo City in the northern Japanese prefecture of ... ( read original story ...)

Enough potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide to kill some 160 to 250 people has gone missing from Osaka Metropolitan University, and their disappearance went undetected for nearly a year, the school ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s parliament has passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many other ... ( read original story ...)

As reported by local press including Focus Taiwan, Foxconn chairman Young Liu said the Sakai Display Product Corp. (SDP) site, located in the Sakai area of Osaka, would be turned into an AI data ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s food scene is a treasure trove for travelers seeking culinary adventures, with Osaka shining as a prime destination. Often referred to as “Japan’s kitchen” due to its reputation as a food ... ( read original story ...)

Take Japan, where a historically weak yen is helping Japanese manufacturers get stronger—the part that irked Trump—but is also wounding the nation’s self-image and widening a perceived prosperity gap ... ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO—April 16 has proved a particularly important date for Dr. William S. Clark (1826-1886) and his legacy in Hokkaido. On April 16, 1877, Clark, then vice president of Sapporo Agricultural College ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design sourced local materials for the design of Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Nagoya, Japan, which features tiles across its surfaces and lamps made from pottery plates. ( read original story ...)

Police in Japan who were busy tracking thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago have set their eyes on a new threat: unorganized and loosely connected groups they believe are behind a series ... ( read original story ...)