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Weather Japan, Tokyo meteo, weather weekend forecast season, the weather in the mountains, the weather on the coast, the weather on the beach, sea water temperature, weather in the capital, the weather in the mountains, the...
Gateway to Asia? Not quite, but North Korea is hoping for more tourists A nuclear test and the resulting international outcry, the detention (and subsequent release) of two U.S. journalists for illegal entry, a spat with...
The government said Friday it estimates 69.5 percent of Japanese families had acquired TVs or tuners to receive terrestrial digital broadcasting signals as of the end of September, up 8.8 points from March. The increase came as...
KAGOSHIMA — The volcano island Sakurajima has had about 400 explosive eruptions so far this year, the most in 24 years, a local observatory said Friday, warning that activity might pick up. The minor explosive eruptions reached...
Saturday 07th November, 04:55 AM JST TOKYO — Actress Misako Yasuda, 27, model Yumi Sakurai, 28, and comedy duo Kuwabata Ohara pledged their commitment to beauty this week at a promotional event for the “Jibun-ichi Bijin...
Two pictures resembling drawings by artist Yoshitomo Nara were sold for a total of about ¥700,000 in an online auction last month after a note to the seller from Nara that the works were bogus went unheeded. The two pieces,...
There are practice sentences and the occasional vocabulary lesson. Helping them do so is an instructor whose former client list reads like a Hollywood who's who. Now she uses her pronunciation refinement and accent know-how in...
Liza Dalby's new book introduces yet another way in which the world might end. Give most casual observers in the West a pop quiz about Buddhism, and they'd say it's about peace, stillness, serene-faced statuary, and (bonus...
Asian Market Update: World Bank raises China GDP forecast but does not see the need for monetary policy tightening; BOJ reaffirms commitment to easy policy despite end of corporate asset buying; Aussie retail sales disappoint...
Two pictures resembling drawings by artist Yoshitomo Nara were sold for a total of about 700,000 yen on an online auction site in late October after a note to the seller from the artist that the works were bogus went unheeded....
