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Japan is among a small number of countries trying to find a way to restart education — under restrictions and with emergency plans to close again if the virus finds a foothold. At Hoyonomori Gakuen, a ... ( read original story ...)

Still nimble-fingered pensioner Hamako Mori holds Guinness world record as oldest gaming YouTuber ... ( read original story ...)

Japan lacked the industrial strength needed to wage a war against the United States. Yet, Japanese military planners seldom considered the limitations to their nation’s construction capabilities. One ... ( read original story ...)

In America, masks have become a weapon in the culture wars. In Japan, wearing one is no big deal, and deaths have stayed low. ( read original story ...)

The case of a Kurdish man who says he was stopped and shoved to the ground by Tokyo police became a rallying cry for protesters marching in solidarity with Black Lives Matter on Saturday. Several ... ( read original story ...)

Tracking of Covid-19 patients has kept deaths low – but social etiquette has played its part too, says Dr Tomoya Saito of Japan’s National Institute of Public Health ... ( read original story ...)

Working two jobs is a lot for anyone to take on, let alone an elite athlete on a mission to make her first Olympic Games. ( read original story ...)

The rolling, global protests reflect rising anger over police treatment of ethnic minorities, sparked by the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis after a police officer detaining him knelt on ... ( read original story ...)

Reuters Thousands of people took to the streets in Australia on Saturday to support protests against police brutality across the U.S. Demonstrations were limited by social-distancing curbs due to ... ( read original story ...)

Shigeru Yokota, a Japanese campaigner for the return of his daughter and more than a dozen others who were abducted to North Korea in the 1970s, has died. He was ... ( read original story ...)

This is an area inhabited both by students looking for cheaper places near the Tokyo University Komaba campus and long-term residents of what used (even postwar) to be a village on the edge of town ... ( read original story ...)

Professional tennis pro Naomi Osaka is calling out trolls on social media who say “athletes shouldn’t get involved with politics.” ... ( read original story ...)

It was an irrecoverable blow to Japan’s fleet at this stage of the war and occurred during her first combat mission, only three months after her commissioning. ( read original story ...)

Yet Moscow’s timely intervention in the war against Japan allowed it to expand its influence along the Pacific Rim. The Second World War was an unparalleled calamity for the Soviet Union. As many as ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo will scrap events marking a year to go until the postponed 2020 Olympic Games, organisers said Friday, citing the "current economic situation" caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, the ... ( read original story ...)

Parliamentary Alliance on China is pushing for a more realistic approach to China that will address its human rights abuses, trade malpractice and accepted diplomatic norms. ( read original story ...)