Japan News

Jeff Aiken of Alabaster is shown running a race in Japan in April 2012. Margaret DeHaye of Hoover, Mary Lee McMahon of Homewood, Bradley Whited of Sterrett and Aiken represented the Birmingham Track Club as they traveled to Birmingham Friendship City Maebashi, Japan.

Davi gave Kashima a 2-1 lead early in the second half but Marquinhos equalized in the 66th minute and Ogawa sealed the win just two minutes later with his first goal of the season.

Panasonic of Japan has managed to produce a full-length movie that depicts a 4,500-kilometer drive all the way from Cape Sata in Kagoshima Prefecture in the south to Cape Soya in Hokkaido in the north.

President Barack Obama will use an Asian tour beginning next week to bolster US alliances in the region at a time of increased geopolitical tension.

A group of Malaysians take their folding bikes on a tour of a fish market in Tokyo and temples in Kamakura, while surviving on budget meals.

Homer sees an infomercial for "The Juice Loosener" on television and orders one.

If you're a big fan of electronic dance music on Guam, no doubt you've bemoaned the fact that the Krewellas and Martin Garrixes of the world never come to our little island.

Japan announced this week it will soon start a reduced whale hunt in the Pacific Ocean after shutting down its operations in Antarctica last month because of a ruling by the International Court of Justice.

The Japanese widow of a Ghanaian who died after being overpowered by immigration officials during deportation filed a complaint Friday against prosecutors' decision not to indict the officials.

Formula One racing and cryptocurrency have nearly nothing in common -- except Suzuka.

If confirmed, the move will likely spark anger among environmentalists who hailed last month's ruling by the UN's International Court of Justice that Tokyo's hunt in the Southern Ocean was a commercial activity disguised as science.

Osaka Gas Co is looking to buy a stake in at least one U.S. shale gas project to help supply fuel to the Freeport LNG project in Texas, a senior company official said on Tuesday.

A fourth U.S. Navy officer has been implicated in a far-reaching bribery scandal involving a defense contractor's CEO, an NCIS agent and multiple senior naval officials.

KRT OLYMPIC SPORTS STORY SLUGGED: OLYMPICS KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID BERGMAN/MIAMI HERALD NAGANO, Japan, February 22 -- The American flag is raised next to the Japanese flag during the playing of the respective national anthems Sunday at closing ceremonies for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

Snails have their genitals on their necks, penguins don't have them at all, male seahorses carry the pregnancy and give birth and female hyena's have a pseudopenis.

At the Zepp Nagoya in Japan earlier tonight, Bob Dylan played "Working Man's Blues #2" for the first time on his current tour, according to Bob Links .

The ferry that sank off South Korea on Wednesday was once operated by a Japanese firm to link remote southwestern islands, the former operator said Thursday.

The Bank of Japan maintained its upbeat view on most of the country's regional economies, adding to reassurances from its governor that the world's third-largest economy can ride out the pain from a sales tax hike without additional stimulus.

Japan's power supply will be tight this summer if all its nuclear reactors remain shut, although blackouts are not expected as long as there are no problems at the thermal fuel plants now providing the bulk of the country's electricity.

Wrestling Church is spending Easter Sunday preaching the Gospel of the Squared Circle.