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Even 50 years after Okinawa Prefecture was returned to Japan, an average of over one unexploded ordnance is found in the prefecture a day. In the past, unexploded bombs have detonated at construction sites, resulting in deaths and injuries. It is estimated that about 1,900 tons of unexploded bombs have…

In Tokyo Vice, HBO max’s new highly praised TV series, the audience follows the adventures of journalist Jake Adelstein in the Japanese underworld. The series is inspired by Adelstein’s memoir of the same name, released in 2009. Adelstein was the first westerner to be hired at the Japanese news outlet…

About 80% of people in the nation said that Okinawa Prefecture has been developing steadily in the 50 years since its reversion to Japan, according to a pair of polls conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

A festival of Okinawan performing arts was recently held at the National Theatre in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the return of Okinawa Prefecture to Japanese sovereignty.

Although many prime ministers keep their distance from their faction while in office, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida remains active in the Liberal Democratic Party's Kochikai faction, which he leads. Kishida frequently meets with Kochikai lawmakers and attends faction meetings, apparently aiming to maintain its unity and solidify his base within…

Implanting a microchip in pet dogs and cats and registering the owner's contact information will become mandatory in June under the revised Law on Welfare and Management of Animals.

The Japanese government presented awards Thursday to film director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and actor Hidetoshi Nishijima for their work on the Oscar-winning film "Drive My Car."

Passengers arriving on the Tohoku Shinkansen platform at Tokyo and Fukushima stations Thursday -- the day operations resumed along the full length of the line, almost one month after a powerful earthquake -- were greeted by station attendants holding banners. A 60-year-old company employee, traveling from Fukushima Station to Sendai…

On the evening of March 15, the Maritime Self-Defense Force detected two Russian Navy ships heading west in waters about 70 kilometers east-northeast of Shiriyazaki cape in Aomori Prefecture. The Shiranui, a destroyer from the Ominato base in the prefecture, and a P-3C patrol plane from the Hachinohe Air Base,…

KUMAMOTO -- Koichi Miyatsu does not remember much about that day when, as a toddler, he was left in the "baby hatch" of a Kumamoto hospital. Now 18, he only has a vague memory of "something like a door."

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- A disaster memorial opened Sunday on the grounds of an elementary school in Miyagi Prefecture that was badly damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.