Chapter 1]Trouble with our neighbor, Korea! Why wouldn't they accept the letter?The Edo Shogunate fell, and in 1868, a new ...

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Japanese manufacturer of sweets and snacks, Meiji, had an unexpected hit last year in convenience stores and supermarkets with a new line of high-end chocolate bars. The chocolate bars, with their ...

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MIYAKOJIMA, Okinawa Prefecture--A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that echoes today. Descendants of the two ethnic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grand sumo champion Yokozuna Terunofuji performs the Shiranui-style entering ceremony for the new year's dedication at the Meiji ...