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Sakurai regularly comes face to face with bears as part of his job as a "government hunter" -- a civil servant with a hunting ...

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The mayor of a Kanagawa Prefecture town is pushing back against power harassment allegations against him, though he ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday named former industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who was involved in a ...

An anonymous donor has given the Osaka municipal government 21 kilograms of gold bullion, worth 560 million yen ($3.6 million), towar ...

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The average price of a new condominium in central Tokyo in January rose 15.8 percent from a year earlier to 121.26 million ...

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