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At least four people died in eastern Japan after " unprecedented" heavy rain that left thousands stranded at Narita airport overnight and snarled up roads and rail services, authorities said Friday.

Nagoya, a historic strategic crossroads connecting eastern and western Japan, developed a distinctive food identity of its own. From hatcho miso and hitsumabushi to kishimen noodles and the city's ...

The torrential downpours late on Thursday triggered landslide warnings and power outages, with forecasters issuing the highest-level heavy rain warning for the Chiba region for the first time.

Traces of the infamous Thai-Burma "Death Railway" have re-emerged for the first time in decades from beneath a dam reservoir, ...

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi is working to bring pandas to the Zoo. He recently took a 10-day trip to China, costing ...

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Heavy rain battered parts of Japan on Monday, killing a woman after her car was flooded in an underpass in the city of Iwaki in north-eastern Fukushima prefecture, broadcaster NHK reported.

For the first time in 40 years, Japanese fireworks will be incorporated into the show. Japanese broadcaster NHK is also ...

A U.S. matcha boom is straining Japan’s tea supply chain, while one Shizuoka producer uses solar-powered farming to build a ...

A Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) official said that this was "shaping up to be an unprecedented level of heavy rain." ...