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While China is engaged in a tense border standoff with India high in the Himalayas, a small group of islands thousands of miles away could be another military tinderbox waiting to explode. ( read original story ...)

Several days after the Taranto raid, almost unnoticed in the confusion and destruction, a slight figure in an unfamiliar uniform studied Taranto harbor intently, inquiring about depths and distances, ... ( read original story ...)

Corben Sharrah of Tucson and Chloe Woodruff of Prescott were U.S. cycling Olympians in 2016 and are contenders again for Tokyo in 2021. Sharrah, 28, is No. 4 in world BMX racing rankings and Woodruff, ... ( read original story ...)

Tennis player Naomi Osaka shared her 'super flavorful' pre- and post-workout smoothie recipes with Us Weekly on Thursday, June 18 — details ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Grampus said Sunday they have released former Brazil forward Jo, who is set to return to his home country for a third stint with Corinthians. The 33-year-old, who played at the 2014 World Cup, ... ( read original story ...)

Protests and Beijing clampdown seen as opportunity to promote Japanese capital as alternative financial centre ... ( read original story ...)

Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet rose by nine percentage points to 36% despite the recent arrest of his former justice minister on suspicion of vote-buying, a poll by ... ( read original story ...)

As Yuriko Koike gears up for re-election in the Tokyo gubernatorial race, comparisons are being drawn between her and Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura. ( read original story ...)

Osaka voters will once again face a referendum on merging the city’s 24 wards following a decision Friday on a plan that would create four large, semiauton ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya Japanese Steak House, which specializes in hibachi cooking, is set to open soon in the new Publix-anchored Holland Point with two other ... ( read original story ...)

Treating a rare type of malignant lung cancer could improve, thanks to near-infrared irradiation and a cancer-targeting compound. Nagoya University oncologist Kazuhide Sato and colleagues tested the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan opened its professional regular season Friday without fans in attendance. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO -- Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not -- play ball. After a three ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Yokohama have arrested a 26-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed another man following an argument over a traffic matter. According to police, the ... ( read original story ...)

Eilish McColgan is "excited" to go for the distance double at the Tokyo Olympics - 30 years after mother Liz won 10,000m world gold in the same city. ( read original story ...)

Canada's wheelchair basketball program will go into Tokyo with a different team than it qualified with due to new eligibility policies put in place by the sport's organizing bodies. ( read original story ...)

Baby Shark” blared from the speakers at the Tokyo Dome when Gerardo Parra stepped to the plate in the second inning on Friday, as Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball leagued opened its shortened ... ( read original story ...)