Japanese high schoolers win World Robot Olympiad
A group of high schoolers from Japan win this year's World Robot Olympiad.
read moreTsutenkaku Tower welcomes year of the rooster
Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower marks the handover from the year of the monkey to the year of the rooster.
read moreRider stands up while driving
A video of someone standing up while driving a motorbike was posted on twitter.
read moreJapanese Government restarts Okinawa landfill work
The Japanese government restarts construction work to move a US Military base to Henoko, Okinawa Prefecture.
read morePrime Minister Abe in Hawaii
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Hawaii for the Pearl Harbor visit.
read moreFukushima father finds daughter's remains
A man's search for the remains of his 7-year-old daughter ends as he learns that she died in the Great East Japan Earthq...
read moreJapan-US to limit immunity of base workers
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan and the U.S. agree in principle to narrow the scope of legal immunity...
read morePost-blaze recovery as main street reopens
Itoigawa's main thoroughfare reopens and residents begin picking up the pieces of their lives five days after a blaze gu...
read more'Tis the season...for giant rice cakes
A town in central Japan carries on a "big" tradition of making rice cakes to ring in an auspicious new year.
read moreProbe begins as firefighters snuff last flames
Firefighters snuff the last flames as a probe is launched into a massive blaze that consumed 150 buildings in Itoigawa, ...
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