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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Thursday that visitors to Ueno Zoo wishing to see its 6-month old panda cub in December and January will be selected at random from those who apply. The zoo is planning to put the female cub, named Xiang Xiang, on ...
Striker Takumi Minamino scored his fourth goal of the season on Wednesday, helping his Austrian first-division club Salzburg to a 2-0 home win over Mattersburg. Minamino, who entered the match in the 72nd minute, scored the second goal after an assist from German Reinhold Yabo ...
Yoichi Itokazu won silver in the men's 62-kg division at the Weightlifting World Championships on Wednesday. Itokazu, who finished fourth in the same weight division at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, snatched 134 kg and lifted 165 kg in the clean and jerk at the ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Thursday that visitors to Ueno Zoo wishing to see its 6-month old panda cub in December and January will be selected at random from those who apply. The zoo is planning to put the female cub, named Xiang Xiang, on ...
Wakaba Higuchi said Thursday she is relishing the prospect of making her first appearance at the Grand Prix Final. The 16-year-old secured the final spot among the six qualifiers and is Japan's lone representative in the women's singles event at the final starting in Nagoya ...
Urawa Reds manager Takafumi Hori was named coach of the year by the Asian Football Confederation on Wednesday, while Nadeshiko Japan boss Asako Takakura won the women's award. Hori, who took over from Serbian boss Mihailo Petrovic in July, led the Reds to their second ...
Around 80 percent of prefectural high schools in Osaka have requested students whose natural hair color is not black to confirm their original color, a Board of Education survey revealed.
The health ministry's proposed rule change to allow public health insurance coverage of sex reassignment surgery for people with gender identity disorder (GID) offers those who face steep surgery costs a reason to cheer. But there are concerns that more people with GID will undergo ...
It was plain from both Harumafuji's words and body language at Wednesday's news conference announcing his retirement that he was going under duress and felt harshly treated. Still, the yokozuna understood that given his position, no other outcome was possible once it became clear he ...
Almost one year into his presidency, Trump's only achievement regarding North Korea has been to secure additional sanctions from the United Nations.
Before the government introduces a new tax specifically designed to promote tourism, it should first explore whether such funds cannot be secured in other ways.
The more Japan complains about "comfort women" memorials, the more attention it draws to the issue.
Planned restarts in central and southwestern Japan will be delayed as nuclear operators confirm whether peripheral equipment used parts affected by data fabrication, operators said.
Kuniaki Kawahata, who lost his 20-year-old daughter Kyoko in the collapse, said he “can’t accept” the outcome.
A court on Wednesday found constitutional a legal provision that allows only men and not women to file a lawsuit denying the legal fatherhood of a child, dismissing a claim filed against the state by a family for damages related to the accuracy of ...
There are 12 categories of traditional team statistics that the B. League religiously charts and distributes to the media. Naturally, it begins with wins and losses. Points per game, opponent's ppg, field-goal shooting percentage, opponent's field-goal percentage, as well as 3-pointers, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks and ...
The Supreme Court is expected to mostly uphold in December a lower court ruling that rejected a suit filed by 388 people who were in the vicinity of Nagasaki during the 1945 atomic bombing, and have been seeking official recognition as survivors. Trial hearings are ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party raised ¥2.32 billion last year from industry groups and large companies, with the figure up for the fifth consecutive year, government data showed Thursday. Contributions to the People's Political Association, the ruling party's funding body, rose 1.3 percent ...
The Hilton Tokyo Odaiba will offer a strawberry dessert buffet, dubbed the Kawaii Masquerade Party, at the Seascape Terrace Dining from Dec. 26 to March 15. Guests will feel like a prince or a princess invited to a masquerade ball. Each of about 30 kinds ...
The former president of an expressway operator was referred to prosecutors Thursday, together with other executives, over a 2012 tunnel collapse that killed nine people, police said. Takekazu Kaneko, 74, the former chief of Nagoya-based Central Nippon Expressway Co., and Hisashi Iwata, the former head ...
