2+ hour, 7+ min ago   (273+ words) An enclosure at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens that was home to popular giant pandas for decades is set to be demolished from Monday. Many people visited the zoo on Sunday to bid farewell to the place filled with memories. Ueno…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (197+ words) Popular Kumamoto mascot Kumamon is back in action for the first time in about three weeks following a major earthquake in the southwestern prefecture. The magnitude 7.1 quake that struck Kumamoto on July 28 prompted the chubby black bear with red cheeks…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (196+ words) Iran-US negotiations remain at impasse as deadline looms nhk.or.jp Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has indicated the situation has changed since Tehran and Washington signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-June The memorandum set a 60-day window to…...

8+ hour, 47+ min ago   (168+ words) On the last day of the Bon holiday week in Japan, throngs of people returning from their hometowns and holiday destinations are crowding railway stations and airports. Japan Railway companies say congestion on shinkansen bullet trains bound for Tokyo is…...

11+ hour, 33+ min ago   (190+ words) A Japanese expert on rain disasters says a large volume of rainwater probably quickly filled a slightly inclined segment of a road and swept away a taxi in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. Ushiyama Motoyuki, a professor at Shizuoka University's…...

14+ hour, 11+ min ago   (213+ words) The Ukrainian military has announced it conducted strikes on a rocket manufacturing center in Russia and other facilities used by Moscow's forces. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said one of the key locations of Russia's rocket…...

18+ hour, 26+ min ago   (173+ words) The circulation of a popular Japanese weekly manga magazine has fallen below one million for the first time. Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump once boasted a circulation of 6.5 million copies. Data released by the Japan Magazine Publishers Association show the title's…...

20+ hour, 23+ min ago   (112+ words) Indonesian authorities say at least 47 people have died following an earthquake off the eastern part of the country early Saturday morning. The US Geological Survey says the 7.7 magnitude quake struck off Flores Island. The quake's focus was estimated to have…...

21+ hour, 49+ min ago   (197+ words) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stressed the importance of the role of young people in the country's development. Modi was speaking at an Independence Day ceremony in the capital, New Delhi, on Saturday. He noted India is moving forward…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (216+ words) A new model of a high-speed train based on the Japanese Shinkansen has been delivered to a port in southern Taiwan. The train was unloaded by crane from a ship at the port in Kaohsiung on Saturday. More than 300 people…...