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To be a kid again A pair of daring women in Florida are determined to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records by hopping into their cars for a 500 mile ride from Jacksonville to Key West. It …

In a country notorious for its reliance on cash, municipalities across Japan have been staging electronic payment uptake drives to stimulate digitalized consumption by granting shopping points for transactions using QR codes.

In a garden in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, sits an unconnected phone booth. No calls can be made or received, but visitors to the phone booth often linger for hours

Thirteen years on, thousands remain displaced and have been waiting for the safe and successful decontamination of the crippled power plant

TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown and left large parts of Fukushima prefecture uninhabitable on Monday with

The 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011 killed about 20,000 people and drove thousands from their homes in the prefectures of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima.

TOKYO -- Japan marked the 13th anniversary Monday of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown and left large parts of Fukushima prefecture uninhabitable with a minute of silence and memorial events, where officials pledged continued support for rebuilding.

TOKYO -- Japan marked the 13th anniversary Monday of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown and left large parts of Fukushima prefecture uninhabitable with a minute of silence and memorial events, where officials pledged continued support for rebuilding.

Children in Fukushima Prefecture have developed more psychological problems than their counterparts in the two other prefectures devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami 13 years ago.

A Japanese scientist takes own life after his collaboration with U.S. counterparts makes him a target for angry farmers and Tokyo bureaucrats.