For centuries, Daruma dolls have been popular in Japan as talismans to bring good fortune. The largest producer of Daruma ...

KIRYU, Gunma -- Complaints of intimidation of welfare benefit recipients have erupted in this east Japan city, with reports of people being told to go and apply for welfare elsewhere and being ...

KIRYU, Gunma -- Two male teachers who are also coaches of the soccer team at a high school here were found to have made discriminatory remarks to a student and verbally abused him, such as saying ...

KIRYU, Gunma Prefecture--Kazuma Kamura was a first-year junior high school student when he ran away from home to escape his abusive parents. He spent nearly three years in a mountain cave with his ...

Watarase Keikoku Railway Co., which runs through a mountain gorge to connect the tourist hotspot of Nikko to Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, first offered this haunted house-on-rails experience last summer.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, the next game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, was originally a concept called Like a Dragon: Tuna where original protagonist Kiryu Kazuma was a fighting fisherman.