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While several retailers are taking conventional measures to deal with bear encounters, convenience store operator FamilyMart Co. has gone high-t…
Princeton University Library celebrates the art and evolution of Japanese publishing with a new exhibition “The Art of Japanese Publishing:…
The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday received an update on the progress of the Pitkin County Library and Schultz Health and Human Servic…
ANA Holdings has placed an order for eight incremental E190-E2s, which will be placed with ACMI operator Ibex Airlines (FW, Sendai) and replace…
The Ministry of Health has proposed introducing premarital education courses and encouraging young people to marry before the age of 30 as the c…
Rescuers searched damaged buildings for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck Kumamoto. At least eighteen people died and sixty-two were…
The number of those missing was unclear after the quake left at least 63 people injured, five of them seriously.
Evacuees rest in a shelter in Uki, Kumamoto prefecture on July 29, 2026, after an earthquake struck southwestern Japan the previous day. Picture…
RIVERS — The provincial government is kicking in $98,000 to help restore the Rivers train station, develop a bicycle museum on the site and expa…
Tuesday's 7.1-magnitude tremor caused widespread damage, flattening homes, damaging bridges, triggering fires and leaving tens of thousands of r…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the Japanese director known as “the master of horror,” was a bit nervous about how viewers might react to his first samurai fi…
Reverberations from the powerful earthquake on July 28 are impacting chipmakers, automakers and other businesses in Kumamoto Prefecture and else…
A strong earthquake, first measured at magnitude 7.1, struck Kumamoto in southern Japan on Kyushu Island late on the afternoon of July 28.
Shopping malls were once called “modern pantheons.” Projecting images of glittering opulence, they probably called to mind the famed Pantheon of…
BANGKOK—Courts in Myanmar have sentenced nine activists to up to 37 years in prison for involvement in a protest calling for a boycott of the el…
Labour shortages following a post-pandemic recovery in demand have led to improved working conditions for drivers, attracting young people to th…
The Mañenggon Memorial Foundation is inviting the public to attend an abbreviated ceremony for Hasso Mañenggon on Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. at the Gover…
As extreme summer temperatures become an increasingly serious public health concern, Japanese manufacturers have introduced a portable cooling b…