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  Nations on either side of the whale hunting debate are set for a standoff as the International Whaling Commission…

  Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors Thursday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan,…

  A government survey sparked by a discrimination scandal has found most Japanese medical schools admit male applicants at a…

  A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded…

  The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall Tuesday, with more than a million people urged…

  The plight of a lonely dolphin and dozens of penguins that have been abandoned in a derelict aquarium in…

  North Korea still poses a “serious and imminent threat”, Japan said Tuesday in its first annual defense review since…

  Emperor Akihito, in his last appearance as reigning monarch at an annual ceremony marking Japan’s World War Two surrender,…

  Japan is bracing for heavy rains and high winds on Wednesday as a strong typhoon is forecast to make…

  Hiroshima marked the anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city with a somber ceremony Monday…