Leaders of the controversy-plagued Church Universal and Triumphant have sold the sect's Calabasas headquarters and announced plans to move to an isolated Montana ranch by the end of the year.
Mayor Ichikawa of Hanno, Japan will dedicate a Kasuga lantern which his city has presented to the City of Brea at 10 a.m.
"Japanese Art Today" is one of those well-intentioned exhibitions that range widely, as the cliche says, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
it is starting to teach Japanese language and business methods to foreigners.
A Japanese golf management company announced its purchase of Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland, one of eight courses used for the British Open.
Nippon Ham Fighters to a 16-2 Japanese League victory over the Kintetsu Buffaloes.
First-round leader Huang Yuen-chyun of Taiwan fired a 3-under-par 69 Sunday and won the rain-shortened Bridgestone Ladies Golf Tournament by five strokes over compatriot Tai Yu-hsia.
Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday in remembrance of the dead, will be observed this weekend by the Orange County Buddhist Church, 909 S.
Toshio Kawauchi, founder and artistic director of the Japanese folk drum group Kodo, has died.
The reduction last year was the first since 1982, because of the effects of the strong yen on exports, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Assn. said.
In a warning to Japan, Gov.
Japanese brokerage houses and one, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, said it had been aware of questionable practices "for some time."
Even the advertising world has now been hit by the yen's continued surge against the dollar.
Japanese television stations agreed to pay $52 million to broadcast the 1988 Summer Olympics from South Korea, the organizing committee announced.
When 166 Japanese tourists descended on the Queen Mary in Long Beach for lunch one day not long ago, they seemed like ordinary visitors.
quit Japanese professional baseball and will leave for home in a few days, the team announced Sunday.
Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, the so-called kingmaker of Japanese politics and the principal
Nobuhiko Ushiba, a former Japanese ambassador to the United States, died of a liver ailment at a Tokyo hospital Monday.
Japan's Tatsuko Osako came from behind with her third consecutive 70 Sunday and won the Dunlop Ladies Golf Tournament, beating Taiwan's Chen Li-ying on the final hole.
Two strong earthquakes, both with undersea epicenters, rocked the ends of the Japanese archipelago Friday, the Central Meteorological Agency said.