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Selling jackets with built-in fans, neck coolers and T-shirts that feel cold, Japanese firms are tapping into a growing market for products to help people handle the summer heat."Some people die from heatstroke," said Nozomi Takai of MI Creations, a company selling neck-cooling tubes mainly to factory and warehouse workers.

Selling jackets with built-in fans, neck coolers and T-shirts that feel cold, Japanese firms are tapping into a growing market for products to help people handle the summer heat. Japan -- like other countries -- is seeing ever-hotter summers. This July was the warmest in 100 years, with at least 53 people dying of heatstroke and almost 50,000 needing emergency medical attention, AFP said. Workman, which makes clothes for construction workers, launched a version of their fan-fitted jackets adapte...

Here are some of the best hot springs in Japan, from Hakone to Yakushima Island.

World News - Battery-powered, fan-equipped outfits once used by construction workers in Japan are now gaining popularity among the wider population, largely due to an

A group of 10 Russian and Chinese warships patrolled near Japan and sailed through the La Perouse Strait from the Sea of Japan to the Sea of Okhotsk over the weekend, the Japan Defense Ministry announced on Saturday. The Chinese-Russian flotilla was sighted at 3 p.m. Friday, sailing northeast in an area 125 miles southwest of Rebun Island, […]

The People’s Liberation Army Navy and Russian Navy wrapped up their joint exercise “Northern Interaction 2023” in the Sea of Japan Sunday before the combined fleet arrived at Vladivostok Monday, where the PLAN ships are making a port visit. The Northern Interaction 2023 exercise began Thursday and involved a PLAN Surface Action Group consisting of destroyers […]

CHIKUMA, Nagano Prefecture--A newly discovered letter written by feudal warlord Takeda Shingen during famous 16th-century battles against rival Uesugi Kenshin prompted a museum here to mount a fund-raising campaign to acquire it.

Ippon Agains Airi Takekawa designs 5 girls from Nagano Prefecture

Eighty years after fighting the largest naval battle in history, USS Johnston and USS Samuel B. Roberts have been found under 22,000 feet (6,705 metres) of water.

More than 80 are injured — four seriously — and several others reported missing as flooding hit many towns and cities.