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Tokyo, Japan, has long reigned as the world's most populated city, but thanks to updated counting methods, has been knocked ...

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Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo ...

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Japan is accelerating a military buildup program designed to double annual arms spending. The country also is revising a ...

Worshippers flocked to a major Shinto shrine in central Tokyo in the waning hours of New Year's Eve to pray for good luck.

From drag shows in Shinjuku Ni-chome to hotel parties and techno raves, here’s how to spend New Year’s Eve in Tokyo.