Japan

The United States has for years been intercepting phone calls between Japanese officials on sensitive issues including trade, climate change and bilateral relations, according to a cache of cables that anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks released Friday. With American and Japanese officials...

HURON (AP) — A group of South Dakota Boy Scouts is heading to Japan for a gathering of more than 30,000 Scouts from around the world. KSFY-TV reports Troop 222 in Huron is the only South Dakota group headed to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree. Boy Scouts from dozens of countries...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — A young giraffe from a South Dakota zoo is about to begin an overseas trip to a new home. The almost 2-year-old giraffe from the Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls is being sent to Zoorasia in Yokohama, Japan. Elizabeth...