ASHEVILLE - After 46 years living in Japan, Tomoo Takenaga has brought the flavors of his country to the U.S., opening a food ...

TOKYO -- It seemed oddly lonely. In late September 2025, this Mainichi Shimbun reporter visited a park at a housing complex ...

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This Japanese family of five lives inside a beautifully designed 57sqm open-air home in Tokyo that completely redefines small ...

KANAZAWA -- Characters from the globally popular Pokemon franchise are helping support communities affected by the Noto ...

Football fever is at its peak right now thanks to a little thing called the World Cup, and The Pokémon Company is making it ...

On July 7, 1976, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York enrolled female cadets for the first time in the ...

Police in Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 49-year-old woman on suspicion of assault after she sewed together the upper and lower lips of a 42-year-old woman with whom she lived.

Joe Hisaishi got famous writing the soundtracks to Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films. Now he is focusing on his first love ...

Former French Open semifinalist Rika Fujiwara has embraced a remarkable second act in pickleball. The Japanese veteran has ...

Alpha Tau Medical (DRTS) pioneers alpha emitter-based targeted radiation therapy, aiming for highly localized tumor ...

Activating a set of sleeping buds everyone has in their jaw could put an end to tooth loss in less than 5 years, says new ...