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The nation’s next prime minister must convince voters in both cities and rural areas that rising prices are a good thing ...

Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when ...

Shutterstock As the light dimmed over Sōya Bay, the town itself seemed practically vacant. In this part of Japan, there was ...

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Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a ...

It was heartening to wake up to the news on Friday that Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grass-roots movement of atomic bomb ...

Jun Sato, Paul Weller's A&R man in Japan, explains his history with the celebrated UK singer/songwriter in this interview.

Researchers identified over 60% of bats in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture carrying multiple zoonotic viruses, including 10 ...