Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Thursday visited Hiroshima Prefecture to pay their respects to atomic bomb ...

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His hands never trembled, not even as he slipped the noose around the necks of several condemned men. But now, years later, ...

Emperor Naruhito met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Imperial Palace here on June 18, during the ...

The U.S. government on Wednesday said it will resume procedures for issuing international student visas at overseas embassies ...

Japan plans to evacuate around 90 nationals and their family members from Iran by land as early as Thursday, a government ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in May rose 21.5 percent from a year earlier to 3.7 million, a record for the month, ...

A man from Syria has opened an online coffee store in Osaka. The store sells special Arabic coffee. This coffee has a ...

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