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A surge in tourists has fuelled a rise in bedbug complaints

Editor thought manipulating street interview would make show more entertaining

A hoard of more than 100,000 coins found in Japan might have been buried by warriors centuries ago.

A volcanic eruption off the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on Oct. 30 led to the formation of a new 330-foot-wide island just north of the explosion site.

Many in the city have put the Hanshin Tigers’ lack of success down to an unusual Colonel Sanders-based superstition, but it may be about to end

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that his country is facing growing economic “difficulties” because of Sudanese people fleeing the conflict raging in their country to Egypt . In an interview with a Japanese newspaper on Tuesday, The Asahi Shimbun, Sisi said that the Egyptian economy is doomed to worsen…