T HE IMAGE Tamaki Yuichiro wants to convey is of upward mobility. His campaign poster shows him grinning against a vivid ...

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A symbol of summer- traditional Japanese Bon Odori Festival was held with great success recently, at the National Youth Services Council ...

Heavy rain battered the Tokai region on Thursday, July 17, causing widespread flooding and disrupting train services, ...

Wednesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...