Watch This Skyscraper Disappear One Floor At A Time
High-rises slowly vanish as new techniques ditch demolition crews.
View ArticleNorth Korean Spies Are South Korea's New Heroes
They are handsome, daring, patriotic and multilingual elite fighters who dodge bullets while remaining loyal to their women and families. Meet the new heroes of South Korean cinema — North Korean spies.
View ArticleChina-North Korea Ties, Sealed In Blood, Slowly Unraveling
Patience with Pyongyang and its nuclear saber-rattling has been running out recently.
View ArticleJapanese Man Evicted By Olympics Twice
Tokyo’s successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics made much of plans to re-use venues built for Japan’s last Summer Games. But for Kohei Jinno, redevelopment means eviction again — just like in 1964.
View ArticleLife-Sized Lady Gaga Doll Makes A Perfect Christmas Gift
Leave it to Japan’s humanoid robotics to outdo the world’s most avant-garde diva.
View ArticleJapan's Mount Ontake Erupts; Kills Hiker, Wounds 46
Mount Ontake, a volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures, erupted on Saturday, spewing ash and small rocks into the air, killing a female hiker, leaving at least 16 people unconscious and 30...
View Article61 Injured, One Missing As Typhoon Vongfong Pummels Japan
Typhoon Vongfong pummeled Kyushu, Shikoku and western Honshu on Monday, leaving at least 61 people injured and one missing before racing northeast toward Tokyo.
View ArticleMicrosoft's Paul Allen Finds Japan's Largest WWII Battleship
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he has found the Imperial Navy’s biggest warship, lying on the seabed in the Philippines 70 years after U.S. forces sank it.
View ArticleJapanese Government To Support Matchmaking, Men's Child-Rearing To Raise...
The plan calls for intensive efforts over the next five years through 2020, saying that Japan faces a “critical situation” where the dwindling number of children could shake its societal and economic...
View ArticleVolcano Erupts In Japan, Prompting Evacuation Order
The Meteorological Agency said Friday that there was a volcanic eruption on Kuchinoerabu Island in Kogashima Prefecture at 9:59 a.m. The agency raised the alert level to 5, in which islanders need to...
View ArticleMagnitude-7 Earthquake Strikes Off Southwest Japan
The Meteorological Agency said tsunami of up to 1 meter could hit the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu and small islands to the south.
View ArticleJapan's Interpreters On Translating President Trump
"He is so overconfident and yet so logically unconvincing that my interpreter friends and I often joke that if we translated his words as they are, we would end up making ourselves sound stupid."
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