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Kyodo News, Published on 20/05/2016
» More Japanese people aged 60 or older have no close friends compared with their contemporaries in three other countries surveyed, according to a government poll released on Friday.
Published on 09/05/2016
» SIEM REAP - Cambodia and Japan began Monday a four-year project to restore the ruined western causeway at Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple.
Kyodo News, Published on 08/05/2016
» Police arrested a 15-year-old girl Sunday on suspicion of killing her mother at a Tokyo apartment in February.
Published on 06/05/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN - The popular black bear character Kumamon has resumed activities as the official mascot of Kumamoto, three weeks after the southwestern Japanese prefecture was devastated by the first of two major earthquakes.
Kyodo News, Published on 05/05/2016
» Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida held talks with Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith on Thursday and conveyed Tokyo's desire to work closely with Laos to reduce tensions over the South China Sea issue, Japanese officials said.
Published on 04/05/2016
» KUALA LUMPUR - Japanese automaker Honda reported Wednesday two new deaths in Malaysia involving defective Takata Corp airbags.
Published on 02/05/2016
» TOKYO - Japan and the Philippines have agreed on the leasing of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) TC-90 training aircraft to the Southeast Asian nation, Japan's Defence Ministry said Monday.
Kyodo News, Published on 28/04/2016
» More than 1,000 seismic events had been recorded in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures by Thursday in the two weeks since a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck southwestern Japan, while over 30,000 people remain evacuated from their homes.
Published on 20/04/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN — The weather agency said Wednesday it sees no signs of seismic activity abating in Kumamoto and surrounding prefectures in southwestern Japan following powerful earthquakes last week, urging people to remain alert.
Kyodo News, Published on 16/04/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN — Scores of people were feared buried alive on Saturday after two powerful earthquakes hit southern Japan a day apart, killing at least 35 people, and as a forecast storm threatened more devastating landslides.