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The evacuation was ordered for residents of the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the NHK broadcaster reported, citing the data of regional authorities.

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued heavy rain and mudslide warnings in parts of the southern main island of Kyushu.

The phenomenon of ‘Dakigokochi’ — which means rice-filled bags shaped like a bundled baby — is increasingly getting popular among new parents in Japan.

The August 9, 1945, bombing came three days after the United States made the world's first atomic attack on Hiroshima, killing 140,000.

Every day, he stood outside the Olympic village with a placard that said, “Good morning athletes! Even if you don’t get a medal, you’re still the BEST!!! So believe in yourself!”

Every year about 38,000 Cedar trees are cut in Oguni, but 40,000 seedlings are planted too

The team did that splendidly with a 5-3 win over hosts Japan to finish second in the table after Australia with four victories from five matches

This is India's best performance in the league phase in the last four decades as they had last finished second in the group in the 1980 Moscow Olympics when they won their eighth and last gold medal so far

Tokyo has reported a record rise in cases for three days in a row, including 3,865 on Thursday.

“Undoubtedly the greatest athletic achievement and honor I will ever have in my life,” Osaka wrote on Instagram next to a picture of her smiling while holding the flame

Though the idea of Olympics was based on the ancient Olympic Games held in Olympia, Greece from 8th century BC to 4th century AD, the first edition of the modern Games were held in 1896.

The first two days of the softball tournament are being played about 40 miles from the site of a 2011 nuclear power plant disaster.

Olympic athletes are interestingly woven around various sporting activities to amplify the game along with the cartoony or artistic resemblance or figure of Manga.

This feat has been achieved by researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NIICT) and they have used existing optical fibre infrastructure.

The Olympics beginning in Tokyo from July 23 will see many firsts -- deferred by a year, no crowds, athletes in a bio-bubble and stringent protocols 

The highest alert level on a scale of one to five remains in effect as small mudslides continue in the upstream area where the fatal mudslides are believed to have originated.

According to an official statement, more than 115 Indian athletes have qualified so far for Tokyo Olympics which will begin on July 23.

Tokyo is currently under less-stringent measures that focus on shortened hours for bars and restaurants but have proven less effective at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.

Tokyo Games spokesman Masa Takaya described the past year after the Games had been postponed as a "long journey," but the idea of "cancellation" never crossed his mind

Japan’s decision to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water from its destroyed nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has upset many