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While the attacks definitely made an impression, they did not offer the Navy a long-term strategic role for its battlefleet. ( read original story ...)

Almost two months after a payout of 100,000 yen ($926) was approved for coronavirus relief, only 3.4 percent of residents in Osaka have received the lump sum payouts, the highest delay seen across ... ( read original story ...)

From Hokkaido to Okinawa, hotels and other accomodation facilities are limiting contact and taking other pandemic-related measures to encourage visitors to stay. ( read original story ...)

Maria Ortiz reacts while kneeling beside the body of her partner Jose Holguin, 50, originally from the Dominican Republic and who died of complications related to the coronavirus disease, during a vie ... ( read original story ...)

A 13-year-old girl was hit and killed by an express train in Yokohama on Friday night. According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:35 p.m. at Futamagawa Station on the Sotetsu Line in Asahi ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of both Osaka Prefecture University and Osaka City University in western Japan on June 26 announced a new public university comb ... ( read original story ...)

Yu Miri's novel, about a homeless man who dies and finds the afterlife much bleaker than he expected, is both mournful and angry, emphasizing the unfairness of poverty with painful contrasts. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo metropolitan government on Saturday said that 57 new cases of Covid-19 infections had been confirmed in the capital, the highest single-day count since the state of emergency was lifted on ... ( read original story ...)

Japan wants to usher in a new era of high-speed public transport with magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains, but the billion-dollar mammoth project for the first Tokyo-Nagoya line ... ( read original story ...)

Central Japan Railway Co is expected to announce soon a decision to delay its planned opening in 2027 of a high-speed maglev train line between Tokyo and Nagoya, sources familiar with the matter say, ... ( read original story ...)

Two 13-year-old girls were hit and killed by an express train in Yokohama on Friday night. According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:35 p.m. at Futamagawa Station on the Sotetsu Line in ... ( read original story ...)

Only 3% of this city's households had received the Japanese government's 100,000-yen per person novel coronavirus crisis relief handout as of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's plan to connect its three major economic centers of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka with just an hour's train ride has taken a major step back. Twice as fast as Japan's famed bullet ... ( read original story ...)

Setback expected after local governor rejects approving the start of preparatory construction work, citing environmental concerns. ( read original story ...)

A post on social media makes the claim that in Japan “looters and rioters” are sprayed with an indelible blue dye so they can be later identified by law enforcement. While the photograph that ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's plan to connect its three major economic centers of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka with just an hour's train ride has taken a major step back. Twice as fast as Japan's famed bullet ... ( read original story ...)