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TOKYO -- Takako Suzuki is the youngest of the 707 lawmakers in Japan's Parliament and the latest of a handful of members to give birth while in office. When Ms. [...]

Byline: YURIKO NAGANO Tokyo -- Amid warnings that rising sea levels caused by global warming could lead to the disappearance of some entire island states, two tiny uninhabited islets in [...]

TOKYO -- Amid warnings that rising sea levels caused by global warming could lead to the disappearance of some entire island states, two tiny uninhabited islets in the Pacific are [...]

Byline: YURIKO NAGANO TOKYO -- Yuuki Takano, an athletic sixth grader, hopes to attend a private junior high school with a strong soccer team after he graduates from his Tokyo [...]

TOKYO -- Yuuki Takano, an athletic sixth grader, hopes to attend a private junior high school with a strong soccer team after he graduates from his Tokyo public elementary school [...]

Byline: YURIKO NAGANO TOKYO -- Coral has been prized in Japanese jewelry since ancient times - its use can be traced back to the Nara period in the 8th century [...]

TOKYO -- Coral has been prized in Japanese jewelry since ancient times. As early as the Nara period, in the 8th century A.D., the royal crown of Emperor Shomu and [...]

Byline: YURIKO NAGANO NAGASAKI, Japan -- Keiichi Mushiake slowly pushes back the red velvet curtains of a brand new viewing hallway in a fisheries research lab near Nagasaki, to reveal, [...]

YUZAWA CITY, JAPAN -- Tarobee Ito, 69, is the guardian of a family legacy that has survived for more than 12 generations, since the middle of the Edo period: He [...]

Byline: Yuriko Nagano Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Tokyo -- It's a quiet afternoon in suburban Tokyo as a well-dressed boy and his mother enter Nikken, a cram school [...]

As part of public relations activities to promote local products and draw attention to their administrations, prefectural governors have recently begun to appear in advertisements and television programs. Miyagi Gov. [...]

Before the box office hit "Crazy Rich Asians," there was "The Joy Luck Club." In 1993, a mostly Asian American and Asian cast on a Hollywood film directed by an Asian American was unheard of. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]