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Today is Friday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2014. There are 173 days left in the year.

Visitors play Pachinko, a Japanese form of legal gambling, at Dynam Japan Holdings Co.'

Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto , who shared an Oscar for Bernardo Bertolucci 's "The Last Emperor" score, has been diagnosed with throat cancer and has canceled his upcoming performances to focus on his health.

Oklahoma farmer Kevin Whitney thought his iPhone was lost for good when it fell into a grain elevator last year.

Democracy Now! is broadcasting from Tokyo, Japan, today in the first of three special broadcasts.

Geographic restrictions have kept many servicemembers from using the Internet to watch their favorite TV shows while posted overseas.

TOKYO: Typhoon Neoguri slammed into the Japanese mainland yesterday bringing widespread flooding, ripping trees from their roots and leaving houses half-buried under mud, as tens of thousands were urged to seek shelter.

One of the oldest attractions at the Springfield Botanical Gardens is the 7.5 acre, Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden .

Bangkok has become a markedly cheaper place for expatriates to live in the past year, according to Mercer LLC's annual list of the world's most-expensive cities.

Japan is famous for its high tech toilets. But the country also has some truly unique restrooms to go with those fancy toilets.

Tropical Storm Neoguri quickly weakened as it made landfall on Thursday over Japan, but it still poses dangers to the nation with heavy rain and possible mudslides.

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A Japanese court is due to rule next month on a claim that Tokyo Electric Power is responsible for a woman's suicide, in a landmark case that could force the utility to publicly admit culpability for deaths related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The season's eighth typhoon Neoguri may hit Kyushu area in southwest Japan on Thursday and bring heavy rain over a wide area in the country, Xinhua news agency reports.

Tokyo likely sits on top of your travel bucket list, but you'd be remiss to limit your Japan travels to the one city.

It's forecast to hit Kyushu island tomorrow and could travel across the main island of Honshu, which includes the major cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

Japan protested Wednesday to China over a newspaper's depiction of exploding mushroom clouds in a map of Japan, calling it offensive.

Japan protested Wednesday to China over a newspaper's depiction of exploding mushroom clouds in a map of Japan, calling it offensive.

Japan protested Wednesday to China over a newspaper's depiction of exploding mushroom clouds in a map of Japan, calling it offensive.

COMMENT Is new China the old Japan? By Curtis S Chin NEW YORK - As the sixth meeting of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue takes place July 9-10 in Beijing, with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew representing the United States, and State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang representing China, ... (more)