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Reformer, kingmaker, shadow shogun, destroyer. With so many labels, no politician stands out like Ichiro Ozawa among Japan's conformist legislators.

The number of people injured by wild deer at Nara Park, a major tourist attraction in the city of Nara, has hit a record high of 200 in the current fiscal year, with non-Japanese, many of them tourists, accounting for some 80 percent of ...

Currently, the law has no clear stipulation on such handovers, leaving court officials to rely on a clause related to asset seizure to enforce child custody orders.

The northern Australian city of Darwin on Tuesday marked the 77th anniversary of a Japanese air raid that killed hundreds during World War II. The Bombing of Darwin, which occurred on Feb. 19, 1942, was the first attack by Japanese forces on the Australian ...

Once a tourism underachiever, Japan is riding high like never before. Last year, the nation attracted a record 31 million foreign tourists, topping 30 million for the first time and pulling off nearly a fourfold jump from 2012. But this is not to say the ...

Farmers near where the disease was confirmed are calling for their pigs to be vaccinated quickly, but the government believes it is too early for such a move.

Scientists have created a high-tech radar capable of producing a 3D map of a rain cloud in 30 to 60 seconds, a major improvement on existing systems, they say.

A dispute resolution panel has rejected a complaint filed by the Okinawa governor over the central government's authorization in October of landfill work for the relocation of the Futenma air base within the prefecture. Calling the move "illegal," Gov. Denny Tamaki had urged the panel ...