Rice prices sold at supermarkets in Japan in August jumped 23 percent from a year earlier due to tight supply from last summer's extreme heat and a buying rush following a government advisory about a ...

The team published the study in the journal Med in 2021. Takebe, 37, told Kyodo News, "By nature, some people's lungs do not function properly, especially when they are newborn babies, and I hope the ...

6, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) Japan’s former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his candidacy of the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election, in Yazu town, Tottori prefecture, Japan, on ...

12, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) This photo combination shows the candidates of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the party’s upcoming presidential election. Top row from left, former Environment ...

“Screamin’ Scott” Simon, who played piano in the early-rock revival group Sha Na Na for more than a half-century and co-wrote the song “Sandy” that John Travolta crooned in ...

KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) -- An iconic 3,000-year-old cedar on Yakushima Island in southwestern Japan has been toppled, likely due to strong winds brought by Typhoon Shanshan, local tour guides said Tuesday.

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(VCG/Getty/Kyodo) BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China's top diplomat Wang Yi showed willingness to lease giant pandas to a Japanese zoo when he met last week with a cross-party parliamentary delegation from ...

Bottom line – the SRL has to be built. Stage 1 is costed at $35 billion now. If we back away and see a re-run of the airport train fiasco, it too could be 10 times that figure down the track.

TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - At least six people were dead as Typhoon Shanshan crept eastward through Japan on Saturday, drenching large areas with torrential rain, triggering landslide and flood ...