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The sample Somei Yoshino cherry tree whose blooming, one of the earliest in the country, was announced by the Japan Meteorological Agency, in the city of Gifu on Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2026
Cherry blossom season begins as first trees bloom
Kochi was the first city in the country to see cherry blossoms for the third straight year.
Rei Banno, 12, recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with her mother, accompanied by guides. She described having seen a ¡°view I had never seen before.¡±
LIFE
Oct 5, 2023
Japanese sixth grader conquers Mount Kilimanjaro
¡°I saw the huge sea of clouds that I had never seen before, and a feeling of happiness gradually spread within me,¡± said Rei Banno.
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2018
Japanese woman hopes Trump-Kim summit will bring news of missing twin
It has been more than 30 years since the identical twin sister of Japanese teacher Misa Morimoto vanished, believed to have been abducted by North Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Feb 16, 2017
Japan-born Thai teenager fights to remain at ¡®home¡¯ despite deportation order
In December, the Tokyo High Court upheld the Tokyo Immigration Bureau¡¯s decision to deport 17-year-old Utinan Won from Japan, the country he was born and raised in his entire life.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 5, 2016
Kofu: the mountain fortress of warlord Takeda Shingen
In Akira Kurosawa¡¯s classic 1980 film ¡°Kagemusha¡± (¡°Shadow Warrior¡°), the 16th-century daimyo Takeda Shingen is mortally wounded by a sniper after being lured by the sound of a flute during a castle siege. Takeda¡¯s clan know that rival warlords Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu will pounce on their domain...
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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