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Tsutomu Yamaguchi gave talks about his experiences as an atomic bomb survivor and often expressed his hope that such weapons would be abolished.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama urged ailing Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii to stay in his post, declining to confirm reports Fujii will step down because of deteriorating health.

With hopes of encouraging their compatriots in their struggle for democracy, a group of Burmese living in Japan is making a film denouncing the military junta that controls Myanmar .

January 5, 2010 - Online Retailers Leak Gran Turismo 5 Date Japan has yet to fully get back to the grind following the holiday period, but thankfully we have a slightly less-than-official source for major news from the Nippon: online retailers.

A 232kg blue-fin tuna is displayed during the new year's first auction at the Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.

The Gifu prefectural police on Monday recovered the body of a man in the Northern Japan Alps who they believe is one of three climbers from Kobe missing for several days in heavy snow.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks during his first press conference of the year.

Nara is preparing to fete the 1,300th anniversary of its becoming the Japanese imperial capital with a yearlong festival that will include carnivals, fairs and musical performances.

The country`s negative sentiment toward Japan has greatly eased over the past five years, while that toward North Korea has slightly grown, the results of a survey released yesterday said.

Japan appears to be suffering from brain drain. Examples include chemist Osamu Shimomura and physicist Yoichiro Nambu, both of whom won Nobel Prizes in 2008 for research conducted in U.S. universities.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima have signed Japan international goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa from relegated Oita Trinita, the J-League first division club said Wednesday.

Japan's Chiba University Professor Hiroshi Ryu displays a flying robot, which fluters its wings 35 times a second like a humming bird, at his laboratory in Tokyo on December 28, 2009.

Third-grade students at Osaka municipal Kita-Nakajima Primary School get insights into culture on the Korean Peninsula that many others do not.

Sunday, December 27, 2009 KATO, Japan: Seeking to turn an environmental problem into an economic opportunity, high-tech companies in resource-poor Japan are mining mountains of toxic e-waste for precious materials.

North Korea's No. 2 leader urged the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, in a New Year's letter Friday to ''positively contribute to'' improving bilateral relations with Japan based on the spirit of the Pyongyang Declaration, the official Korean Central News Agency said.

TOKYO: Tens of thousands of cheering Japanese gathered in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday to hear Emperor Akihito pray for the nation's happiness and world peace in his traditional New Year address.

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The to-be-inaugurated Girls Professional Baseball League announced Monday the establishment of two teams, the Kyoto Asto Dreams and the Hyogo Swing Smileys.

Goodbye, the Zeroes; hello, the Teens. Here's to three things that are becoming obsolete in 2010: paper, death and the facsimile.

WON'T YOU TAKE ME TO RETRO TOWN?* Kitakyushu is the 13th largest city in Japan, but, aside from Space World, it gets hardly a mention in my collection of guidebooks, maybe because it has heavy industry, including a large steel plant.