Q: When was June 23 established as Okinawa Memorial Day?

Okinawa on Monday vowed to pass on history's lessons in a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of a fierce World ...

Oyachi marsh in the city of Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, is bustling with people trying water shield harvesting. The water ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s major setback in the June 22 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election is certain to give ...

Suitcases rattle against cobblestones. Selfie-snappers jostle for the same shot. Ice cream shops are everywhere. Europe has ...

Australian Minjee Lee won the Women's PGA Championship on Sunday as Japan's Chisato Iwai finished five shots back in fourth a ...

Hundreds of people protested Sunday against NATO and military spending and against a possible conflict with Iran, two d ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party suffered a record-low result in Sunday's Tokyo assembly election, ...

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A sharp warning from voters for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's party in Sunday's Tokyo assembly election has signaled that ...

Two people who survived the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing talked about their experiences to university students here on June ...