Turkish investigators take a second man into custody over the deadly attack on two Japanese women in Turkey who reportedly confesses to the stabbings.

Competition for mobile phone vendors spikes as Japan's three top players begin taking pre-orders for Apple's latest iPhone, including NTT DoCoMo.

Zaha Hadid was once flying to Frankfurt to give a talk. Her plane taxied out, developed a minor fault, and stopped. She refused to believe the reassurances that the delay would be brief, and demanded that she be put on another flight. Her wish ...

Like most people my age — 51 — my childhood was in black and white. That’s because my memory of childhood is in black and white, and that’s because television in the 1960s (and most photography) was black and white. All the TV programs ...

The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics will be a compact games, with roughly 75 percent of the sports venues within 8 km of the Olympic Village, according to the official plan. “The biggest selling point in Tokyo’s plan is ‘Athletes First’ — compactness in the ...

Kyushu Railway Co. on Friday unveiled the ¥3 billion Seven Star luxury sleeper train ahead of its inaugural run on Oct. 15. The event, held at a rolling stock factory in Kitakyushu, followed the signing a day earlier of a charter service contract with ...

Tokyo is the best city for residential-property returns, broker Savills PLC said, because Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policies are stimulating the economy and increasing investor confidence. Tokyo, chosen to host the 2020 Olympics, has “extremely attractive” gross rental yields of 4.7 percent compared with ...

ANA Holdings Inc., whose fleet is dominated by Boeing Co. aircraft, will soon decide on placing an order for 25 jets, pitting the newest wide-body models of Airbus SAS and Boeing against each other. “It’s getting close to the time we need to make ...

“Kaze Tachinu” (“The Wind Rises”) was director Hayao Miyazaki’s last feature-length anime before he retired this month. Because of the film’s success, more people are visiting a plant in Aichi Prefecture where a restored fighter plane featured in the movie is being exhibited. Mitsubishi ...

Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott will not be sworn in until next week, but he has already stamped a markedly different style on government, fostering an air of studious, steady calm. That stands in stark contrast to the “chaos” he liked to accuse his ...

A widening political scandal is threatening to split Taiwan’s ruling party and potentially set back efforts to build closer economic ties with China. Recent allegations of influence-peddling by Taiwanese politicians, driven in part by investigators’ wiretaps of one lawmaker’s cellphone conversations, have stirred fear ...

With the whir of a giant digital camera, the biggest mystery in the universe is about to become a bit less mysterious. Fifteen years ago, the world of science was rocked by the discovery that, contrary to our previous notions of gravity gradually slowing ...

The population of North Korea’s city-size political prison camps could be tens of thousands lower than the estimate used for more than a decade by aid groups and the U.S. government, according to recent reports and accounts from researchers, who put the new number ...

The tireless Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in the disco era and now about 19 billion km from Earth, has become the first man-made object to enter interstellar space, scientists said Thursday. Interstellar space, scientists now know with certainty, is dense with particles, and the ...

The clock may tick a little slower on the remote German island of Pellworm, but residents are ahead of their time when it comes to renewable energy. Home to about 1,000 people and three times as many sheep, the windswept North Sea outpost of ...

Like many before him, Trevor Skingle became fascinated with samurai ethics while learning a martial art. But for this Briton, the samurai respect for the arts in traditional Japan resonated with his own life choices. That happened when he was a physical education trainer ...

Wladimir Balentien said getting to 55 was “the hard part” in his quest to set a new single-season home run record. From the looks of things, 56 isn’t going to be a walk in the park either. The Hanshin Tigers kept the Tokyo Yakult ...

Japan striker Ryoichi Maeda scored twice as struggling Jubilo Iwata boosted their top-flight survival hopes with a stunning 3-1 win at Kashiwa Reysol in the J. League on Friday night. Iwata came into the match second-from-bottom of the table and nine points adrift of ...