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Is this quirky dish nothing more than a social media experiment or is it actually delicious enough to stick around and become a popular menu staple? ( read original story ...)

Tokyo district public prosecutors’ office says it has arrested Yoshitaka Ikeda, a former vice-education minister ( read original story ...)

Rescue teams worked through snow to deliver aid and supplies to isolated hamlets in Japan on Monday. Rescuers continue to work to save those isolated and trapped one week after a powerful earthquake hit the western part of the nation. ( read original story ...)

Yoshitaka Ikeda’s arrest is the first in a scandal that has battered support for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. ( read original story ...)

Japan restated the importance for early completion of signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Sri Lanka and creditor nations on debt restructuring, after an agreement was reached in principle late last year. ( read original story ...)

Director Nicolas Lamperin has grand designs for next year's tournament after record crowds flocked to Auckland last week. ( read original story ...)

The death toll from Japan's New Year's Day earthquake jumped to 161 on Monday as snow complicated relief efforts with more than 2,000 people still cut off and many others lacking power or in crowded ... ( read original story ...)

Thousands of people who became homeless overnight are living in wearniness and uncertainty on the western coast of Japan a week after a powerful earthquake caused at least 161 deaths and left dozens ... ( read original story ...)

But which are the best of the best according to an actual castle expert? Nagoya City University professor Yoshihiro Senda, a castle archaeologist regarded as an authority in the field, names his top ... ( read original story ...)

A prized bluefin tuna weighing nearly 525 pounds has sold at auction for a tuna cash on the first day of business of 2024 for Tokyo’s largest fish market, netting nearly $800,000. ( read original story ...)

Officials say 1,370 homes were completely or partially destroyed. Many of the houses in that western coastal region of the main island are aging and wooden. Some 30,000 people are in shelters. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo will “contribute $37 million to the NATO trust fund” to purchase drone detection systems for Ukraine, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said during her press conference in Kyiv on Jan. 7, ( read original story ...)

Aftershocks are threatening to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments as the death toll from the earthquakes that rattled Japan's western coastline this week rose to 126. ( read original story ...)

This marks the first arrest in the connection of a series of incidents, in which it is alleged that the largest faction of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, once headed by Shinzo Abe, the late ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said on a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday that Tokyo was "determined" to support Ukraine, as the second anniversary of Moscow's invasion nears. "Japan is determined to support Ukraine so that peace can return to Ukraine, ( read original story ...)

After not being signed to an MLB team following a 194-game suspension from sexual assault allegations, Trevor Bauer spent the 2023 season in Japan. ( read original story ...)