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The increased focus on foreign travelers follows the death of a Hong Kong woman on the outskirts of Otaru. The 61-year-old ...

KYIV--The foreign ministers of Japan and Ukraine ... that Ukraine is very concerned about the possibility of Russia transferring missile and nuclear technologies to North Korea.

Rescuers in Japan are still trying to reach a truck driver who plunged into a sinkhole on Tuesday north ... Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture. Mud and debris are believed to have piled up as high ...

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A large sinkhole appeared at a busy intersection in a Japanese city on Tuesday ... of the sinkhole to evacuate. The Yashio city administration had set up an evacuation centre in a municipal ...

Victoria's health department is urging people in the state's north to remain vigilant against mosquitoes, following recent detections of Japanese encephalitis ... "That can cause very serious ...

whereas Japan is an example of a country with a completely different type of urban planning. "There cities are more compact and natural areas are kind of separate from the cities. So there's less of ...

The San Diego Padres, long viewed among the favorites to sign the next "big thing" from Nippon Professional Baseball, remain among the very few teams ... finalists to sign Japanese pitcher Roki ...