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Young women dressed in classic maids outfits welcome visitors to the Ryohoji Temple in Hachioji, Japan, on Saturday.

SAITAMA A 34-year-old Tokyo woman under arrest for fraud received some 70 million from one of four male acquaintances who died mysterious deaths now being probed as foul play, investigative sources said Thursday.

Images from the 41st Tokyo Motor Show at Makuhari Messe in October, 2009 in Chiba, Japan.

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SCIENTISTS in Japan said they have uncovered evidence that shows it may be possible to delay or prevent heart failure in humans.

TOKYO Japan suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacker Saturday over its failure to remove cattle parts banned under a bilateral agreement, as officials here raised concerns about U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease.

MENASHA - Max Schultz is amazed with the views at the new Aylward Gallery. Schultz, the director of the gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, said the experience is akin to being outdoors from inside.

A bear in the mountains of Takayama, Japan, mauled nine people in a bus terminal, four of them seriously, before it was killed by hunters, officials said.

WASHINGTON - Asian leaders at this week's economic summit will demand a greater voice in the way global financial institutions make crucial decisions.

An unmanned Japanese cargo spacecraft yesterday was plucked out of space by a robotic arm and attached to the International Space Station .

The HTV launched on Sept. 11 from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan aboard an H-IIB launch vehicle carrying up to 6,000 kg.

The International Space Station, pictured above, is about to receive a supply ship from Japan.

The Japanese space agency launched a powerful new rocket Thursday carrying an unmanned space station cargo ship on a complex maiden voyage to deliver some 7,400 pounds of equipment and supplies to the orbital outpost.

Suntory, the whisky-to-green tea drinks conglomerate, is in talks to buy Orangina, the French brand, as part of efforts to expand its business interests beyond Japanese shores.

TOKYO Japan's next ruling party agreed today to form a coalition with two smaller parties, one of which wants to move a U.S. Marine base off of Okinawa and review an agreement that stations 50,000 American forces in the country.

With shuttle Discovery's departure, the six crew members on the International Space Station have quickly turned their attention to their next visitor: Japan's HTV cargo spacecraft, which is set to launch Thursday.

The Japanese public cooed over photos of their likely future emperor on Sunday as Prince Hisahito, the first male heir born in four decades, turned three years old.

BANK of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Monday that the Japanese economy was showing some signs of a recovery, a brighter view than the bank's official assessment out earlier this month.

The near-silence is surprising, even confounding. A largemouth bass supposedly a tad bigger than the venerable world record has been caught, and there is no shouting from rooftops.

A venomous snake measuring 2.26 meters long has been found on Amami Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, outstripping the previous record for the longest snake to be captured on the island.