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Sunday 08th November, 01:05 PM JST MATSUE — A human torso was found Sunday at a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture near the site where the head of a missing 19-year-old woman from neighboring Shimane Prefecture has been found,...
Sunday 08th November, 02:44 PM JST HIROSHIMA — A gubernatorial election is under way in Hiroshima Prefecture on Sunday to choose a successor to outgoing Gov Yuzan Fujita. Running for office are five candidates. They include...
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) In a rare mass visit, about 230 cadets and crew from a visiting Chinese naval training vessel visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the A-bomb Dome on Saturday. The military visit to Hiroshima Peace...
Tokyo intends to bid for 2020 Summer Olympics, despite recently losing out to Rio de Janeiro in the race for the 2016 Games, governor Shintaro Ishihara said in an interview published yesterday. Ishihara is set to leave office...
Meg Green OLDWICK, N.J., Nov 06, 2009 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- Just more than 100 years ago, in rural Siberia, a comet or asteroid exploded with a force about 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped over...
About 230 cadets and crew of a Chinese naval training vessel on Saturday visited the Hiroshima A-bomb museum and the ruins of a building destroyed by the U.S attack on the city in 1945. It is rare for such a large contingent of...
Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the accepted end of the Cold War, the United States has misused its position as a superpower, according to acclaimed global political scholar Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama told...
JAPAN CAST: kitagawa hiromi,koike teppei. 33-year-old Akiyama Satomi is a history teacher at the prestigious all-girls high school she once attended. She has earned the nickname "ohitorisama" (meaning "one person") for her...
Alarmed by a rise in people jumping to their deaths in front of trains, some railways are installing special blue lights above station platforms in the hope they will have a soothing effect and reduce suicides. As of November,...
Tokyo - A Japanese man collecting mushrooms in a mountain area on Friday found the severed head of a young woman, believed to be a college student missing since last month, news reports said. The man made the grisly find near...
