NAGOYA--Aichi will become the first prefecture in the country to recognize sexual minorities and common-law couples and their children as families under a “family-ship” oath system that takes ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 7 to 12 mph (11.3 to 19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 38 °F (3.3 °C). Sunny with a high of 61 °F (16.1 °C). Winds from NW to WNW at 7 to 11 mph (11.3 to 17 ...

OMI-HACHIMAN, Shiga Prefecture--Shigenobu Sato found himself ... walls that look like they were fashioned from stone and tricky "shachihoko" fish-shaped ornaments that adorned the roofs of the ...

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Chiba Prefecture is located just east of Tokyo, with its capital, Chiba City, about 40 kilometers away from central Tokyo. Chiba Prefecture also borders Ibaraki to the north and Saitama to the ...