Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

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Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, ...

Japanese media say a sociology student attacked her classmates with a hammer during class after voicing frustration at being ...

Two men in Tokyo, Japan died after choking on mochi around New Years, and now officials are warning others to take care when ...

The increase has been attributed to accelerated corporate efforts to improve capital efficiency and pressure from activist ...

TOKYO/WASHINGTON -- Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will communicate the issues that Tokyo considers non-negotiable when he meets with Marco Rubio, the nominee for U.S. secretary of state, in ...

Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ ...

From taking part in traditions in Asakusa to getting lost in the playground that is Shinjuku, Tokyo is truly unique.

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Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...