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TOKYO -- A tropical storm in Japan disrupted transportation and knocked out power to thousands of homes in its path as it headed west toward a region still recovering from devastating rains earlier th... ( read original story ...)

Greetings from Osaka and another edition of Where I’m At; a monthly update of what I’ve been up to and general site news. There are no direct flights from Luang Prabang to Saigon so I opted to stay in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics insist construction delays at two key venues will have no impact on preparations for the games, including test events. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government ... ( read original story ...)

There is no average ward population because there are no wards. Osaka, Japan is another city that is close in population size to Toronto. According to the city of Osaka website, there are 24 wards and ... ( read original story ...)

Growing up in Japan, Kum-hee Cho recalls learning that her grandparents came from South Korea and her "motherland" is North Korea, but she is neither North nor South Korean. Chongryon people are ethni... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – The world’s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Chiyo Miyako died Sunday. Her death was confirmed Friday by Kanagawa prefecture, her home state south of Tokyo. READ MORE: T... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – A large white and blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of worship. Welcome to the Mobile Mosque. As Japan prepares to host visitors from aroun... ( read original story ...)

AICHI (TR) – Aichi Prefectural Police arrested a male patient at a hospital in Nagoya on Wednesday after he slashed a doctor with a knife, reports TBS News (July 26). At around 5:10 p.m., Yoshio Ito, ... ( read original story ...)

adding direct flights from Bangkok (Don Mueang) to Nagoya, a city of culture in the heart of Japan and the capital of Aichi prefecture in the Chubu region. Flights begin this 30 October 2018 with prom... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced today that it has developed the world's first technology capable of efficiently producing isoprene from a biomass. The new breakthrough is the result of ... ( read original story ...)

Cult leader in 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo subway executed with 6 followers Japan doomsday cult member surrenders after 17 years Kamikawa called it a terrorist attack that even terrified people oversea... ( read original story ...)

Kyodo News service said the fire was believed to have started in construction materials on the bottom basement floor during steel cutting work. Fires at construction sites in Japan are not rare. In To... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – Thirteen members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult were hanged this month for crimes committed in the 1990s, culminating in sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people an... ( read original story ...)

Japan has executed the remaining members of a cult behind the deadly 1995 Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway. The six men were the last ... was unimaginable," said justice minister Yoko Kamikawa at a ne... ( read original story ...)