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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 ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Construction delays at two key Olympic venues could force Tokyo Games organizers into a reshuffle of test event schedules, the organizing committee said. The Olympics Aquatics Center ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who ... Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa called it a terrorist attack that even terrified people overseas. She said at a news conference that the s... ( read original story ...)

He told the Japan Times that neither the city nor ninja performing groups have any plans to recruit new performers. The city was forced to issued a statement on its website warning people of “fake new... ( read original story ...)

“This heat is a threat to life,” a spokesperson for Japan’s Meteorological Agency said in a news conference Monday. “We recognize it as a natural disaster.” A spokesperson for the agency told the BBC ... ( read original story ...)

stand operating in Osaka City over alleged tax evasion, reports Fuji News Network (July 25). Over a three-year period ending in 2016, Tatsuko Utsunomiya, 72, whose Miyamoto-chaya stand sits at Osaka C... ( read original story ...)

“We are mindful that we do have to prepare for extreme heat,” John Coates, head of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Games, told a recent news conference. The 1964 Games in Tokyo were he... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - As Tokyo melts in a record-breaking heatwave, Olympic organizers are looking at ways to combat the heat when the 2020 Games rolls into town in two years. With the temperature reachin... ( read original story ...)

Thousands of people in Japan have been rushed to hospitals with heat stroke symptoms during the heat wave. Kyodo News agency has tallied more than 40 deaths. Many of the victims have been elderly peop... ( read original story ...)