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The plan had been for Kairos – an ancient Greek word meaning “the right moment” – to put the satellite into orbit about 51 minutes after take-off.
Making babies in South Korea just became a very lucrative side hustle.
Cafolla set the record on a day when it was cloudy and snowing with the air temperature at -3 degrees Celsius and the water temperature at 1 degree Celsius.
Some parts of the Japanese peninsula rose up to four metres, shifting the position of coastlines and leaving some ports dry.
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Despite numerous incidents racking up, including rocks thrown at Japanese children in Chinese schools, boycotts against Japanese products, and hundreds of hostile phone calls, there is no proof that China’s citizens have been directly harmed by the Fukushima water release.
You may order sushi and get an omelet, or ask for a glass of water only to see the waiter drinking it on their way past your table. As strange as it sounds, the only qualification needed to work here is that you have to suffer from dementia.
While scientists have backed Japan’s move to send the treated water back into the ocean, there are still many lingering concerns, all tinged by the backdrop of the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
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If accurate, it would pose major economic and social challenges to the world’s third-largest economy.
While planet Earth has been busy debating the hidden message beneath King Charles’ coronation menu, a privately owned Japanese company, space, has been preparing to land the first-ever robot on the moon.
Nine months after the assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in July last year, his successor, Fumio Kishida had an apparent little bomb scare.
A documentary by the South China Morning Post unveiled the industry that helps people vanish without a trace In Japan.
People do crazy things to find and keep love. Some lie and others steal, and some would even help a stranded spaceman buy a rocket. Who are we to judge?
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Given Japan’s low birthrate and the highest public debt in the developed world, policymakers increasingly worry about how to fund Japan’s expanding pension obligations.
Videos of spotty Japanese teenagers licking Saki-cups have left the country fuming.
Whether art-related or for fetish’s sake, a community in Japan has been keeping the age-old fascination alive and well in Tokyo.
A poor hiker in Japan had this experience first-hand and managed to capture the whole hair-raising scene on a GoPro camera attached to his helmet.
On a hillside in Katsunuma in the city of Koshu, Yamanashi prefecture, a Buddhist monk spends his days contemplating the grape and praising wine.
Tokyo’s Shoji Morimoto has rebranded himself as a Rental-Do-Nothing-Man and it’s surprisingly lucrative.
Two Japanese men fled from their home country to South Africa, hoping to get away with murder. But their plan to build a new life in KwaZulu-Natal didn’t go to script in the end.
One man in Osaka’s prefectural Amagasaki city woke up with a lot more to contend with than just a hangover after a particularly gruelling Tuesday night bender.
A long-standing relationship between a security guard at the Onomichi City Museum of Art in Hiroshima and two of the area’s strays is pure joy.
Iino, home to a small community of 1 900 people, is trying to re-establish itself with claims of UFO sightings and special alien treatment.
Volcanic activity in the sea around Japan’s Ogasawara Islands has lifted sunken “ghost ships” from the depths of the ocean.