Autumn in Japan is a season for mountain climbing, and the number of foreign hikers is rising. Police statistics show that ...

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Japan established a large air defense identification zone surrounding ... intrusion as a warning against the Russian intruder. A map attached to the Japanese defense ministry's report showed ...

International borders have changed dramatically over the centuries. In some cases entire countries have been erased from the ...

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The Japan Air Self-Defense Force carried out 358 scrambles in six months, a decrease of 66 scrambles compared to the same ...

At Dublin’s 48 Gardiner St. Lower, a plaque honors the boyhood home of Greek-Irish writer Patrick Lafacadio Hearn, who is ...

In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London, two researchers slide open a plain storage cupboard door to reveal a hidden treasure: shelves of fossilised corals, up to 30 million years ...

In the minister’s office in the Environment Ministry, a large map of Japan is put up. A small red sticker is put on 33 locations on the map, from the northern Tohoku region to Kyushu ...

A Japan land ministry official was surprised that its real estate information website launched on April 1 has earned more than 10 million pag･･･ ...

As history has shown, once ousted, it takes decades — if not years — for the LDP to rebuild and return to power.

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