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Taio Kanai won the 110-meter hurdles championship, setting one of two Japan records on Sunday, the final day of the national athletics championships at Isshin ...

Yuki Yanagita capped a solid day at the plate with a tie-breaking, 12th-inning home run, lifting the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to a nail-biting 5-4 win ...

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Some Argentines are taking advantage of World Cup fervor.The security minister of Buenos Aires province said Friday that police have broken up an organization that ...

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The government and the police are discussing the idea of developing a computer system that can predict street crime by utilizing big data and artificial ...

The International Tokyo Toy Show is often a good place to spot new gadgets and this year was no exception. On: Tech takes a look ...

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When Masatoshi Naito first began researching Tohoku folklore, he expected to find places "haunted with a macabre atmosphere." Instead, he stumbled into a vivacious traditional ...