A ceremony to distribute traditional round rice cakes was held on Monday at Hikone Castle in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan.
Families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea were forced to bring in another new year without their loved ones at home. They are urging the Japanese government to hold a bilateral summit with ...
Police in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, have arrested a 62-year-old man on suspicion of strangling his 88-year-old mother to death on Sunday. According to police, Toshiaki Nagano, a company employee, is ...
A NAGASAKI World War Two bombing survivor – who devoted his life to campaigning against nuclear weapons – has died aged 93.
The first cherry blossoms this year in Japan have been observed in Okinawa Prefecture. Weather officials say they confirmed that flowers were in bloom on a benchmark cherry tree of the hikanzakura ...
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Japanese city becomes first to subsidise epidurals to encourage more women to have childrenTo address the problem, Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike has pledged to subsidise epidural childbirth “as early as possible” to ...
Japan which has the most generous childcare leave policies in the world, has increased its spending on childcare and offered ...
The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...
Japan education authorities seeking ways to stop children in country from accessing videos of dangerous 'superhero' challenge ...
Elizabeth Altounian’s South Pasadena accessory dwelling unit is more than just a living space. It’s a manifestation of beauty ...
Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace has died. He was 93. Fukahori died at a hospital in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan.
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