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Tattoo is not taboo,” insist two hair dye company employees, and they’ve developed the product to prove it—vanishing tattoos ...

People are more willing to take risks when interacting with avatars instead of humans, a study has shown. Avatar-based ...

The owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant in western Japan was arrested with two other people on June 16 for ignoring an ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Hiroshima Prefecture on June 19 and 20 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end ...

Official campaigning for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election with all 127 seats at stake started on June 13, with the ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) has revealed that two recent decouplings of Tohoku Shinkansen mid-journey involved different Komachi trains that used the same electrical circuit board, which may ...

IKITSUKI, Nagasaki Prefecture--On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God. In a special room about the size of a tatami mat ...

A veterinarian has died after showing symptoms consistent with a potentially deadly infectious disease transmitted by ticks ...

Hundreds of dancers from northeastern Japan will descend on the Osaka Kansai Expo site in mid-June to showcase the flavor of the Tohoku region’s biggest summer festive event. It will be the ...

SEOUL--North Korea on Saturday said it had righted a capsized destroyer and moored it at a pier in the northeastern port of Chongjin as it continues to repair the new warship leader Kim Jong Un ...

SAKAI, Osaka Prefecture--City authorities gave the go-ahead for trial balloon rides at ancient burial grounds here from early October. The area features the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group, a cluster of ...