The team will be sequestered at a hotel in the Gunma Prefecture city of Ota as it prepares to face the host nation in the tournament's opening game on July 21.
After finding a haul of photos at a flea market, one artist has spent her time in lockdown trying to reunite them with their owners.
It's estimated that up to 90% of Kangaroo Island's previously 50,000-strong koala population was killed as flames swept through eucalyptus plantations.
If the mission was successful, the capsule will contain two samples from the Ryugu asteroid, including the first subsurface asteroid sample ever collected.
Academics say the previously ignored works illustrate the 'isolating and traumatic experience of internment.'
Producers and wholesalers have begun selling high-end stock directly to the public, giving ordinary households rare access to luxury meats and seafood.
When it came time for Sydney-based brother and sister BMX riders Kai and Saya Sakakibara to decide which country they would represent as athletes, the Olympic hopefuls were spoiled for choice. Born in Australia's Gold Coast to a Japanese mother and British father, and having ...
The last Japanese citizen to be evacuated from a war-torn region of Papua New Guinea has returned to witness a long-awaited referendum on independence. Satoru Kutsukake first arrived in Bougainville in May 1987 as an idealistic 28-year-old as part of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, ...
At the base of Uluru are signs in seven languages asking people to reconsider climbing the landmark, once known as Ayers Rock. The signs briefly outline the beliefs of the Anangu — the indigenous, traditional owners of Uluru and its surrounding lands — who see ...
When Erna Takazawa was about 15 years old, growing up in the Pacific island nation of Samoa, her older sister started having vision problems. "My parents took her to our national hospital and, at the time, the hospital did not have the resources or the ...
