With all three of Japan's top telecoms firms selling the iPhone, industry observers say handset makers are in for tough times.

Caroline Kennedy tells the Senate confirmation panel she hopes to carry on the legacy of her slain father, John F. Kennedy, as U.S. ambassador to Japan.

Sony Corp. expects the lower price of the PlayStation 4 and wider variety of entertainment services to drive its forecast to sell 5 million units of the game console by the end of March. The projection for Sony’s next-generation machine, set to be introduced ...

Narita International Airport on Friday announced it will put new moving walkways into service on Sept. 27 to help travelers more quickly reach the departure and arrival concourses in an annex to Terminal 2. The only way to get to the building at present ...

The latest iPhone models hit store shelves Friday in Japan, drawing hordes of fans to retailers nationwide, while mobile giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. started selling the iconic handsets for the first time. Since Apple Inc. unveiled two new handsets, the iPhone 5S and 5C, ...

Red-faced officials issued an apology to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday after misspelling his name on the suit he wore during his second tour of the battered Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Abe was given a specially printed suit to protect him from ...

Japanese automakers showcased their low-cost, environment-friendly cars at the 21st Indonesia International Motor Show that opened Thursday in Jakarta, hoping to capitalize on new tax exemptions for “green” vehicles. The luxury tax exemption, which is expected to boost sales of Japanese carmakers in the ...

A year after relisting on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan Airlines Co. is overwhelming long-time rival ANA Holdings Inc. in profit terms. Thursday marked the first year anniversary of JAL’s return to the first section of the TSE, and the airline has regained its ...

Police have arrested a store manager from Kyoto on suspicion of stabbing to death his former girlfriend, whose body was found earlier this week on a path in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, police officials said. The police allege Takashi Okamoto, 47, who turned himself in ...

The rules governing personal conduct on the top deck of a Glasgow bus are known to international peacekeeping forces everywhere: keep your head down; do not make eye contact and on no account attempt to make polite conversation with strangers. Refrain too from making ...

Egyptian security forces backed by combat vehicles and helicopters stormed a town near the pyramids famed among tourists for its traditional rugs and dresses, aiming to drive out Islamist militants who held sway there for over a month, brandishing their weapons as they roamed ...

With a low, rumbling roar, an arc of dirt, rock and mud tumbled down the hillside in the remote Mexican mountain village of La Pintada, sweeping away houses in its path, burying half the hamlet and leaving 68 people missing in its mad race ...

The communications revolution that swept the globe missed the Zapotec village of Talea de Castro high in the mountains of southern Mexico, where making any sort of call meant trudging to a community telephone line and paying what could be a day’s wages for ...

New Zealand’s government expects to raise up to $1.8 billion by selling nearly half of the country’s largest power company. Documents filed Friday show the government expects to raise between 1.9 and 2.2 billion New Zealand dollars ($1.6 billion-$1.8 billion) by selling 49 percent ...

The gap in employment rates between the highest- and lowest-income families in America has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to an analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press. Rates of unemployment for ...

China’s first authentic version of a giant rubber duck that has made a splash around the world and inspired fakes across the country made its debut Friday — but some complained that visitors had to pay to see it. The inflatable yellow bird, which ...

Apple Inc.'s newest iPhone models goes on sale Friday in Japan ahead of their debut in the United States and other countries later in the day, with NTT Docomo Inc. offering the popular handsets for the first time.

NASA’s Curiosity rover hasn’t discovered any signs of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, a finding that does not bode well for the possibility that microbes capable of producing the gas could be living below the planet’s surface, scientists said Thursday. Since landing in ...

Sitting in his home recording studio in Tokyo, surrounded by dozens of instruments that he has collected over the years, Morgan Fisher is in the center of his universe.

As I headed out the door to do some trail running in the national park behind my house, I was surprised to make it only a few hundred meters before I was stopped dead in my tracks. The dead part was a tree that ...

The J. League has built up a richly deserved reputation for leadership and vision since it began two decades ago, but this week’s decision to revert to a two-stage championship risks setting the Japanese game back by years. The J. League on Tuesday announced ...

The Arizona Diamondbacks almost got the Los Angeles Dodgers out of town, if not out of mind. But the Dodgers rallied in the final game between the two teams this season for a 7-6 victory on Thursday behind Hanley Ramirez’s two home runs. And ...

World No. 3 Andy Murray has withdrawn from the upcoming Japan Open to undergo surgery on a long-standing back injury, organizers said Friday. The 26-year-old Murray, who became the first British man in 77 years to win the singles title at Wimbledon this year, ...

Valencia and PSV Eindhoven slumped to humiliating home losses as the Europa League threw up some early surprises in the opening round of group-stage matches on Thursday. Languishing near the bottom of the Spanish League, Valencia’s woes deepened by losing 3-0 to Swansea in ...

This was one time Andy Reid didn’t mind being a big target. The man in the bull’s-eye so often when he coached in Philadelphia was easy for Chiefs receiver Donnie Avery to find. At the end of Kansas City’s 26-16 victory over the Eagles ...

Croatia reached the semifinals of the European basketball championship for the first time in 18 years by defeating Ukraine 84-72 Thursday. Croatia will play Lithuania, which edged Italy 81-77. France and two-time defending champion Spain will play the other semifinal on Friday. Croatia has ...