The enactment of the abdication law for Emperor Akihito draws positive reactions from the public, including fond memories of encounters with the 83-year-old monarch.
A car collides head-on with an expressway bus in Aichi Prefecture, killing one man and injuring 45 other people.
Broadcom now appears to be first in line to purchase Toshiba’s flash memory unit because a Japan-U.S. consortium is dragging its feet.
Hiroji Yamashiro recounts six harsh months of POW-like detention he survived after being singled out for simple acts of civil disobedience recently in Okinawa.
Japan’s push to establish a nuclear fuel recycling program and use the plutonium created in the process was the center of an intense debate in the U.S. government four decades ago, pitting those who wanted smooth relations with Tokyo against those who worried the ...
U.S. President Donald Trump punched back Friday against James Comey, accusing the ousted FBI director of lying about their private conversations — and saying he is “100 percent” willing to testify under oath. Comey delivered scathing testimony a day earlier in a highly anticipated ...
The government endorsed a plan Friday to prioritize investment in human resource development to buttress Japan’s economic growth and improve its tattered finances. Japan will maintain its pledge to achieve a surplus in the primary balance by fiscal 2020, while the government’s annual economic ...
The Cavaliers stopped Golden State’s perfect postseason and maybe started another comeback. Just like last year, the NBA Finals are at 3-1 after four games. LeBron James recorded a triple-double, Kyrie Irving scored 40 points and Cleveland outperformed the NBA’s most electrifying offense in ...
A foreign patient finds much to praise after her stint at a hospital in Japan, despite the language and cultural hiccups.
I first climbed Mount Fuji in the summer of 2015, a dizzying ascent up the northeastern Yoshida trail accompanied by a group of friends from university who were as keen as I to summit Japan’s tallest mountain. Full of energy, we left from the ...
The Kanze Noh Theater reopened in April in Ginza Six, a new upscale shopping complex in central Tokyo that seeks to attract domestic and foreign audiences to a wide range of the country’s traditional performing arts. With this in mind, the complex’s owners reached ...
Lawmakers should take new steps that will contribute to building a society free from hatred and prejudice.
The Xi regime should try to stabilize Chinese society by promoting democratization instead of taking an iron-fist approach.
Bureaucrats buttress their power by making the exercise of a constitutional right contingent on government approval.
U.K. voters threw out the script. Let that be a lesson.
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