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N. Korea Has Large Chemical Weapons Stockpile
North Korea has up to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, South Korean experts said Friday, including the toxin used to...
Japan Punches Time Clock Early For ‘Premium Friday’
Japan's Prime Minister will spend Friday afternoon meditating while staff at some of the country's biggest firms are...
Kusama’s Eternal Love of Polka Dots
She has two major exhibitions opening simultaneously in Japan and the United States at the venerable age of 87 -- but...
Fukushima Operator Eyes Plan To Clean Up Plant
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday it will craft a plan this summer to extract...
Japan’s Sunwolves Ready For Super Rugby Reset After Horror Year
Sunwolves coach Filo Tiatia said Thursday that the Japanese side have no reason to feel pressure this season after a...
Record Damages Awarded Over US Army Base Noise In Japan
A Japanese court on Thursday awarded record compensation for thousands of residents near a US military base over...
Ultimate Fighting Championship Muscles Into Asia With Eyes On China
The world's biggest mixed martial arts organisation, the Las Vegas-based UFC, Thursday announced its long-awaited...
Japanese Swim Sensation Ippei Watanabe Seeks Tokyo Gold, and More
Fresh from setting a new world record, Japan's latest swim sensation Ippei Watanabe is plotting Tokyo Olympic glory in...
Cult Japanese Film Director Seijun Suzuki Dead At 93
Japanese B-movie director, Seijun Suzuki, whose prolific output from gangster films to fantasies influenced...
Super Rugby Has Plenty To Tackle In 2017
A new Super Rugby season kicks off this week with bosses pledging to tackle its unwieldy conference structure,...
Japan Zoo Culls 57 Monkeys Carrying ‘invasive’ Genes
A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an...
Japan’s Silver-Tongued Lotharios Sell Dreams To Lonely Women
Cigarette smoke hangs thick in the air of a Tokyo nightspot as Aki Nitta sips champagne with a trio of sweet-talking...
Japan Table Tennis Prodigy Harimoto Seeks Olympic Dream
A 13-year-old Japanese table tennis prodigy has set his sights on the Tokyo Olympics after he narrowly failed to become...
Bare Cheek As Japan Men Strip Off For Naked Festival
With only a skimpy loincloth to protect their modesty, thousands of men brave freezing temperatures to fight for lucky...
Malaysian Police Hunt Four More Suspects Over Kim Jong-Nam Killing
Malaysian police say they are looking for four more North Korean suspects in connection with the killing of Kim...
Best-Selling Miffy the Rabbit Author Dick Bruna Dies
The Dutch creator of Miffy the cartoon rabbit has died aged 89, his publishers have announced. Writer and illustrator...
China Urges Nuclear Talks Resumption With North Korea
China on Friday urged a resumption of six-party talks with North Korea on Pyongyang's nuclear programme, saying a...
World Stocks Lose Momentum After Record-Breaking Week
Global equity markets were set to end the week on a softer footing on Friday, after setting record highs in the...
Phelps Heads For 2020 Olympics — As Swimwear Salesman
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, will take part in the 2020 Games in Tokyo, but as an...