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A record tourism boom has raised concerns over the enormous stress visitors put on the environment.

The researchers spot the new rosy pink orchid species near hachijo island in tokyo, japan and name it spiranthes hachijoensis.

Sometimes you open your wallet to check how much you have for lunch and realize you spent all your bills. You open the change pocket and there's one lone 500 yen coin staring back at you. If that happens to you and you're hankering for hamburgers in Japan (or you're…

Русский Naha, Okinawa Pref., Feb. 7 (Jiji Press)--Two Chinese coast guard ships sailed in Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, on Sunday. This is the fifth such intrusion by a Chinese government ship this year, and the second one since Monday's enforcement of China's new law allowing its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels, after Saturday's intrusion. The two Haijing ships entered Japanese waters south-southeast of Taishojima in the Senkaku chain around 3:50 a.m. (6:50 p.m. Saturday GMT), according to the Japan Coast Guard's ...

Русский Miyakojima, Okinawa Pref., Jan. 18 (Jiji Press)--A candidate supported by Japan’s ruling party has lost to an opposition-backed rival in the first of a series of mayoral elections in Okinawa Prefecture, in a blow to the government of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the run-up to next year’s Okinawa gubernatorial election. In the mayoral poll in the city of Miyakojima in the southernmost Japan prefecture on Sunday, Kazuyuki Zakimi, 71, an independent supported by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party, defe...