As many as 2,860 public schools in Japan are at risk of being affected by tsunami of a magnitude estimated as possible, a government survey revealed Tuesday. They included 1,442 ...
The municipal assembly in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, approves the restart of the local nuclear power station.
Radioactive soil currently stored at schools in Fukushima Prefecture is not supposed to be transferred to radioactive waste storage facilities planned to be built near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 ...
Japan has one of the worst levels of gender equality in the developed world, below that of Tajikistan and Indonesia, coming in 104th out of 142 assessed countries in 2014, ...
The delegation demands that North Korean officials put the highest priority on finding out what happened to the Japanese nationals who Tokyo believes were abducted and may still be alive.
The president of the Czech Republic awarded a Briton his country’s highest state honor for organizing a mass evacuation of children to save them from Nazi death camps. Sir Nicholas Winton received the Order of the White Lion from President Milos Zeman at a ...
The company's Toyota and Lexus brands top the survey, while its Scion brand is in the top 10. It's the eighth year in a row that a Toyota brand has led the rankings.
If it wasn’t already evident, the point was driven home Tuesday night. Kenji Otonari is back and he looks better than ever. Otonari continued his run of lights-out pitching in the postseason, Lee Dae-ho and Seiichi Uchikawa each drove in two runs, and the ...
St. Mary's International School is setting up a panel to conduct an internal investigation into reported cases of child sexual abuse — including one confirmed case of rape — at the school in Tokyo.
Having opened in Meiji 32 (1899), and serving its signature yakitori (grilled chicken), unagi (eel) and nabe (hot pot) for over 110 years, Miyakagi is one of Nagoya’s longest-running restaurants. The first floor is for those wanting to try the grilled food, with a ...
When the people at the Berlin-based Samurai Horo label asked Yu Asaeda to contribute to a compilation they were putting out, they got more than they’d bargained for. “I must have sent them about 20 or 30 tracks in total,” says the Tokyo-based producer. ...
It's hard to fault the ambitions of China and 20 other nations in agreeing to start up the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. After all, Asia does need infrastructure. But there are fears that AIIB is aimed partly at undermining prevailing norms on international lending.
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party pledged last week to "comprehensively advance the rule of law." But can the rule of law really take root as long as a party central panel remains in overall control of initiating corruption probes against high-ranking ...
Critics of the World Health Organization say its inability to fight Ebola thus far can be traced not only to its own organizational problems but also to its "collusive relations" with the pharmaceutical industry.
A gap has emerged between Japanese and foreign media in their appraisal of Japan's political scene. Some overseas media are growing skeptical that Japan is indeed a champion of freedom and democracy.
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