KOBE -- "Wow! It actually lit up," exclaimed a young girl, delighted to see her broken light-up toy repaired before her eyes. Fusao Sato, the 76-year-old "toy doctor" responsible, shared her joy with ...

Two new basic levels are set to be featured in the English language proficiency test administered by the Eiken Foundation of ...

Economists have sounded a note of warning about the pledges made by most of Japan's political parties, including the ruling ...

A program allowing foreign workers without Japanese driver's licenses to operate freight transportation vehicles on aircraft ...

A 54-year-old woman has been found dead in a mountainous area in Tsukuba, northeast of Tokyo, police said Friday, adding they ...

The spread of unverified information, false rumors, and fake images or videos related to elections and politics on social ...

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Blazing a trail without a single technical supervisor, Japan's first Alpine snowboard world champion Tsubaki Miki is looking ...

This time felt different. The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago -- the ones ...

"ChoViva" is a chocolate substitute developed by the German food tech company Planet A Foods and recently launched in Japan ...

A new survey shows that about half of parents in Japan whose children took junior high school entrance exams regret that ...

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