Northern Japan received record snowfall on February 4. The city of Obihiro observed 124 centimetres of snowfall in 24 hours ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had nothing but praise for U.S. President Donald Trump during their first face-to-face meeting at the White House. Ishiba began the Feb. 7 talks by pointing to an ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency extended its heavy snowfall warning to around Feb. 9, mainly on the Sea of Japan side, after snow covered several municipalities on Feb. 6. More than 60 centimeters ...

Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported. The decision makers in Tokyo’s corridors of power feel China has “received all the attention from the US” in recent years, according to Stephen ...

Nikkei 225 is an index which belongs to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) calculates the index daily since 1950. The calculation of Nikkei 225 index began on ...

Initially, staff suspected digestive issues or parasites, but one creative team member suggested that the sunfish might simply be feeling lonely, Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun reported.

The move was a "last resort" to solve the sunfish's health issues which appeared after the aquarium closed for renovation A sociable sunfish who was reportedly missing its human audience during a ...

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By Meryl Cates The ballerina Maria Tallchief was having dinner with her husband, the choreographer George Balanchine, at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan when the impresario Sol Hurok approached ...

The woman's name was Maria Zaytsava, and she was then just 19 years old. She was among tens of thousands of people, many of them young, who had taken to the streets to protest the reelection of ...

Mai Kato, a 26-year-old exhibit staff member, told the Mainichi Shimbun, "The sunfish was popular (among visitors) before the renovations. It's curious and would swim up to visitors when they ...