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The Yamanote line in Tokyo is expected to resume operations at around 10:00 a.m. Sunday.

East Japan Railway says that it decided to restart services earlier than scheduled, as the safety of the tracks has been confirmed.

More than 430,000 households in the greater Tokyo area and regions close by are without electricity because of Typhoon Hagibis.

As of 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, the power is down for about 148,000 households in Kanagawa Prefecture west of Tokyo.

Some 30,000 households in the greater Tokyo area and elsewhere are without electricity because of Typhoon Hagibis.

As of 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, the power is down for 14,000 households in Chiba prefecture, which was hit hard by Typhoon Faxai in early September. A blackout is also happening in parts of Tokyo and Shizuoka, Tochigi, Yamanashi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Saitama and Kanagawa Prefectures.

Some 24,000 households in the greater Tokyo area and elsewhere are without electricity because of Typhoon Hagibis.

As of 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, the power is down in parts of Chiba Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Tokyo, Gunma Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture and Kanagawa Prefecture.

Japan will allow dozens of autonomous vehicles to freely roam around streets near competition areas prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Japan's Fisheries Agency says that of the 88 member nations in the International Whaling Commission, 40 could be listed as approving of whaling.

The agency placed the IWC's members into two groups of approving and disapproving of whaling, based on their past voting behavior in IWC activities and other data.

Have you ever been driving along and started to wish that your car had an onboard hot spring which you could jump into to enjoy a warm bath? Maybe, maybe not.

Events to mark the new Reiwa era have taken place in Japan and around the world.

In Tokyo, about 70 senior-ranking wrestlers have celebrated the start of the era by standing in formation to spell out the two kanji characters that make up the name. Among them were Yokozuna grand champions Hakuho and Kakuryu, as well as newly promoted ozeki Takakeisho.

Tokyo police on Monday stepped up security around the Imperial Palace ahead of this week's abdication and accession ceremonies.

Explosive detection dogs were seen searching for suspicious objects in the square in front of the Palace. They can even find devices that are buried.

We have lost count on many times we have reported on what form the successor of the Nissan GT-R might take. Now, nearly 12 years after production of the R35 kicked off, we have a few more bread crumbs to feast on.

Golden marshes--what a beautiful name! Perhaps at sunrise or sunset, the sun's golden rays created a magical view of Kanazawa.

No, not the Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture; I'm talking about the one in Kanagawa. The area that hardly anybody calls by its "proper" name and instead refers to as "Bunko" or "Hakkei."

Japanese weather officials say an extremely powerful cold air mass will bring snow to wide areas, including central Tokyo.

The Meteorological Agency says the air mass with a temperature of minus 24 degrees Celsius covered the northern prefecture of Hokkaido and nearby regions on Friday.

I'm sure that most of us know that ukiyo translates as "floating world." But what exactly does this mean?

Our mother planet, Earth, is indeed floating somewhere in the Milky Way--or the River of Heaven (amanogawa), Ganges of the Sky, Birds' Path, Straw Way and countless other ways us earthlings refer to our galaxy.