He elaborated on his long-held ideas about creating a disaster-prevention agency and increasing grants for rural ...

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Backing down would undermine the league’s zero-tolerance stance and signal that 'permanently ineligible' isn't always ...

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In a first for the nation, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government passed an ordinance to protect workers from customer harassment ...

Japan's development aid to Afghanistan strengthens the Taliban. Instead, Tokyo should support those, like exiled Afghans, who ...

Ayami Sato may be the most dominant female pitcher ever to pick up a baseball. Her fastball has been clocked at almost 128 ...

Visual communication tools like tsunami flags are critical at swimming beaches, where sound can be obscured by waves and wind ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies boast that the sanctions make Russia stronger, but they incessantly call for ...

The latest data — for the week of Sept. 16 to 22 — showed cases averaging roughly six times the number from the same week ...

On Wednesday, the Dodgers said Jack Flaherty would start Game 1 and Yamamoto would follow in the best-of-five series.

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