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Wooster Chorus concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, Gault Recital Hall in Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster. Founded in 1964, the Wooster Chorus is composed of students representing ...

Kamakura is not the only place in Japan facing a resurgence of over-tourism ... In Shirakawa-go, a World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture featuring traditional “gassho-zukuri” steep-roofed ...

Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said. In the ...

A man who was found collapsed on a street in Gifu City on Friday, with a knife wound to his abdomen, and who said he had been attacked by a stranger, made the story up, police said Sunday. According ...

A man who was found collapsed on a street in Gifu City on Friday, with a knife wound to his abdomen, and who said he had been attacked by a stranger, made the story up, police said Sunday. According ...

Night - Partly cloudy with a 61% chance of precipitation. Winds WSW at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 34 °F (1.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 45 °F (7.2 °C) and a 47% chance of ...

A man was taken to a hospital here Jan. 24 after he was found on a street with his exposed organs in an apparent knife attack ...

Escape the crowds and visit 3 of Japan’s lesser-known treasures: Taketomi Island’s beaches, Yamaguchi’s history and Nasu’s ...