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Saudi Arabia's King Salman has arrived in Tokyo with his 1,000-strong entourage making the first visit to Japan by a monarch from the nation in nearly five decades. The 81-year-old king, who was greeted by Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito at Haneda airport ... ( read original story ...)

The town of Namie in Japan's Fukushima district still sits empty, six years after a powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Japanese authorities plan to lift evacuation ... ( read original story ...)

Italy’s 2013 world silver medallist Valeria Straneo did not start the race, while both Monica Jepoech and Reia Iwade dropped out of the race after 15km. This year’s Nagoya Women’s Marathon had 137 elite runners and 21,564 non-elite runners. ( read original story ...)

Ohara was originally entered, but pulled out recently due to a stress fracture in her left foot. But it’s Kirwa, a two-time Nagoya winner, who will start as the prohibitive favorite. If she wins Kirwa will be the first three-time winner of this event ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Six years ago, more than 18,000 people died or went missing as a tsunami triggered by a massive quake engulfed coastal areas of northeastern Japan. Tens of thousands more people's lives were unraveled when they lost family members, friends ... ( read original story ...)

reports TBS News (Mar. 7). The controversy surrounds the sale of land in Osaka’s Toyonaka City at a price far below market value to educational body Moritomo Gakuen, the operator of the private elementary school Mizuho no Kuni Kinen Shogakuin. ( read original story ...)

By Marilisa Racco National Online Journalist, Smart Living Global News Never has #OOTD looked this enviable. Bon and Pon, a 60-something couple from Japan, is taking Instagram by storm with their matchy-matchy outfits that prove style is ageless. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Japan is ending its peacekeeping mission in troubled South Sudan after five years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday. Abe said Japan would not renew the mission after the current rotation returns in May. The 350-person team has focused on ... ( read original story ...)

Already under fire over soaring expenses, Tokyo's 2020 Olympic organisers on Friday sought to downplay fears that further ballooning costs could hit the trouble-cursed main stadium. Amid media reports that temporary structures at the showpiece venue could ... ( read original story ...)

"Tokyo Ghoul" season 3 seems to have been confirmed to come out later this year by Viz Media senior director Kevin Hamric. (Photo : Dresrosa/YouTube) "Tokyo Ghoul" Season 3 might just be around the corner than you might expect. Reports surfaced recently ... ( read original story ...)

March 9 Maruei Department Store Co Ltd : * Says it plans to sell Nagoya-based property at an undisclosed price on March 30 Source text in Japanese: goo.gl/bc3ocE Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News) ( read original story ...)

The men's national team recently placed third in their division at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan — Montano plays on that team as a forward — and the women's team is going to its first international tournament in Thailand. Montano says ... ( read original story ...)

AICHI (TR) – Aichi Prefectural Police on Wednesday launched an investigation following the discovery of a woman’s corpse inside a love hotel in Nagoya. Police received ... to her” at around 1 p.m., Fuji News Network reported (Mar. 8). ( read original story ...)

Influential Japanese lawmakers are pushing harder for Japan to develop the ability to strike preemptively at the missile facilities of its nuclear-armed neighbour North Korea. Japan has so far avoided taking the controversial and costly step of acquiring ... ( read original story ...)

“I am overjoyed that I can say I am no longer a criminal,” said Andrei Novosyolov, 47, at a news conference held after his acquittal at the Sapporo District Court on March 7. “It took a very long time,” he said, recalling the two decades since his ... ( read original story ...)

But, only days had passed when Anime News Network cross speculated the headline announced by Viz Media. According to the source, Hamric misspoke Tokyo Ghoul Season 3 instead of My Hero Academia during the interview. This speculation was later than ... ( read original story ...)