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At the foot of Sanjo Ohashi Bridge, close to Kyoto's fabled Gion neighbourhood, home to the city's kimono-clad geishas, once sat an old Japanese inn.

TOKYO, July 31 -- College of the Atlantic issued the following news release: Jay Friedlander has been invited by the Harvard Project on Asian and International Relations to speak at its 2014 conference.

TOKYO, Japan, August 1, 2014/African Press Organization / - 1. As a part of Japan-U.S. development cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency will give a seminar on August 5th to the participants of the fifth annual AWEP International Visitor Leadership Program hosted by the U.S. Department ... (more)

Osaka police failed to report more than 81,000 crimes over a period of five years through 2012 to improve the Japanese prefecture's crime rate figures, The Asahi Shimbun reported Thursday.

In this Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C Orion surveillance plane flies over the disputed islands, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea.

A group of people pose for a picture using the newly installed camera platform designed especially for smartphones to help tourists take better selfies and group photos on July 30, 2014 on Enoshima Island in Fujisawa, Japan.

It may look like a pink sky at sunset from the picture, but it's actually Japan's largest wisteria plant.

The Justice Department said an executive at a Japanese auto supplier agreed to plead guilty and will serve 13 months in prison in the government's wide ranging investigation into bid rigging and price fixing in the auto parts sector.

Schoolteachers and other associates of a Japanese schoolgirl accused of the "dissection" murder of a classmate are engaged in soul-searching over whether they should have heeded warning signs of the alleged killer's deteriorating mental state.

In our article on Japanese wines we spoke about the Coco Farm & Winery estate, a great example of oenotourism and the integration of disabled workers .

American electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. is teaming up with Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp. to build a battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. expected to create 6,500 jobs.

James Packer's chief lieutenant in his push to enter Japan, Todd Nisbet, has met with Osaka governor Ichiro Matsui, who said the prefecture was committed to developing Asia's top integrated casino resort.

Special guest Mary Mariko Ohno, a transplant from Tokyo, Japan, filled a small portion of the library with Japanese music, chants, singing and dances for onlookers.

VanKirk died Monday in Georgia at age 93. SUNBURY - Compared to the 58 other missions they ran together, the one they were assigned to carry out on Aug. 6, 1945 was easy.

An employee operates a crane to move a roll of sheet aluminium on the production line at the Akao Aluminum Co.

Mascots, mascots, everywhere! Japan's new breed of LCCs seem to love a mascot to celebrate a route launch as demonstrated by; Jetstar Japan , Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air .

A hearse carrying the coffin of Japanese schoolgirl Aiwa Matsuo, alleged to have been murdered by a classmate, leaves a funeral hall in Sasebo, Japan, on July 29, 2014.

The Embassy of Japan in Bucharest announced on Monday that the conductor of the State Philharmonic in Targu Mures, Shinya Ozaki, is on the list of the 108 people who have received this year the Award of the Foreign Minister of Japan's Government.

Nearly 69 years ago, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk navigated a U.S. B-29 Superfortress called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, on a sunny August day.

Capt. Theodore VanKirk is seen here with the rest of his crew wen they return from the mission over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.