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Japanese cuisine is playing a starring role in Hollywood this awards season. After the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday night, ...

A new government survey shows that ideas about men's and women's roles are very different across Japan. In some areas, many ...

Venezuela heads into Saturday's World Baseball Classic quarterfinal against Japan confident of ending the three-time champi ...

The U.S. military has started moving at least one amphibious assault ship and more than 2,000 Marines from Japan to the ...

Wall Street's losses deepened Friday as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting ...

Hidden behind the Sanin mountains, an hour's drive away from Hiroshima, is the humble port town of Hamada, Shimane Prefecture ...

A new twist on matchmaking is coming to Tokyo this spring: dating events where every participant shares the same family name. The idea is aim ...

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A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a man to 14 years in prison for attempting to rape an intoxicated woman after forcing ...

The Japanese government on Friday approved a plan to consider legalizing the use of birth surnames alone in official ...