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The World Bank presidential race is being hotly contested. […]

If a major earthquake hits the "Nankai Trough" off central and western Japan's Pacific coast, the resulting tsunami could tower two to three times higher than previously estimated, according to an expert government panel announcement on March 31. […]

At a recent symposium that I attended, I learned some shocking information from Yasuyuki Shimizu, the head of a suicide prevention nonprofit organization called Lifelink. […]

Unheralded veteran Kyokutenho of Mongolia won the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday, capturing his first Emperor's Cup with a win over Tochiozan in a championship playoff. Kyokutenho, who is ranked just seventh in sumo's elite division, threw down fourth-ranked Tochiozan in an extra deciding bout after both wrestlers finished… […]

Festival goers carry portable shrines during the annual Sanja Festival in Asakusa, Tokyo, on Sunday. […]

Special darkened glasses were selling out in Japan on Saturday and Sunday as anticipation built ahead of a "ring" solar eclipse above one of the most densely populated parts of the planet. A swathe of the country will be able to see the annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes… […]

Monday's solar eclipse will translate into a ¥16.4 billion windfall for the economy, according to an economist's estimate. The total includes ¥760 million in sales of special viewing glasses and ¥1.08 billion in spending to observe the full eclipse from hotels. […]

I was thinking about Narai today. It sprang to mind, unbidden, while I was driving somewhere else, and all day visions of the little streets and old buildings haunted me. Memories double-exposed over the place I was really in. Like so many other places I've been to, and been back to, that little Nagano Prefecture town is caught up in memories. It's […]

Even the wind cooperated Friday at this normally blustery naval station, remaining calm as David Beckham lit a celebratory cauldron and signaled the start of the 2012 London Olympics torch relay. There was a hushed "oooooh" as the former England national team captain and current star for the Los Angeles Galaxy took center stage as the flame arrived […]