A Sugashima-class mine clearance vessel, the JS Ukushima, experienced a fire in the engine room on the morning of Nov. 10 off ...

(Mainichi/Yoshiya Goto) UBE, Yamaguchi -- Two months after ... lives in an inundation of an underwater coal mine off the coast of this west Japan city. On Oct 29, divers began research with ...

A fire on a Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper navigating near southwestern Japan has left one crew member missing and another injured.

UBE, Yamaguchi -- Two months after the ... 183 souls lost their lives in an inundation of an underwater coal mine off the ...

In Japan, the long-ruling party’s dramatic loss ... was “sucked into the outdated characteristics of the LDP,” says Yamaguchi Jiro, political science professor at Hosei University in Tokyo ...

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SAPPORO -- Five foreign-capitalized companies are conducting surveys or exploratory drilling to develop gold mines in at least 42 locations in Japan, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. All of these ...

Nine months of Russian occupation left more than half of Inna Boiko’s 50,000-hectare farm in southern Ukraine littered with shell craters, burnt-out equipment and dangerous land mines.

11 Bit Studios' harrowing side-scrolling survival game This War of Mine is ten years old today. And to mark the occasion, 11 Bit has unveiled Forget Celebrations, a new charity DLC being released ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South Africa on Friday in the hope of ...

The Cultural Affairs Agency selected the Sado gold mine complex on Dec. 28 as Japan’s only candidate site for the upcoming listing. The complex had operated for centuries until 1989. The agency ...