The appeal against the acquittal of Joji Obara on charges of murdering Lucie Blackman is dividing the parents of the slain Tokyo bar hostess. While her mother, Jane Steare, supports the Tokyo High Court appeal trial by prosecutors that started Tuesday, her ex-husband and ...

The Japanese community in Britain is hoping the government will rethink plans for a new English language requirement for foreign nationals coming to work in the country. The Japanese Embassy in London has expressed “serious concern” at initial government plans to ensure that all ...

Japan’s higher education system faces “an implosion” due to oversupply and a falling birthrate, according to research from a British academic. Roger Goodman, a Japan expert from Oxford University, said the situation will make it increasingly difficult for the less prestigious and smaller establishments ...

Environmentalists trying to preserve endangered stocks of bluefin tuna in Europe do not think an upcoming international conference in Tokyo will alleviate the crisis. They believe the meeting of industry figures in March will merely paper over the cracks because it will not address ...

The late Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda was infuriated by an “anti-Japanese” TV documentary that cast his nation’s companies in a bad light as they considered setting up bases in Britain, according to official documents from 1977 released Friday. The controversial program, “Eastern Promise,” which ...

A chain of aquariums in Europe has removed Japanese goods from its stores to protest Japan’s latest whaling expedition. The group Sea Life is also calling on Europeans to boycott all Japanese products in the runup to Christmas in an attempt to change Tokyo’s ...

Japan is promoting itself at this year’s World Travel Market in London as the ideal destination for a family holiday. After last year’s promotion, which focused on young adults, Japan is now using the growing popularity of Japanese pop culture in Britain and Europe ...

Japan removed one of its diplomats from Britain in the mid-1970s after the possibility he could be charged with causing the death of a woman by dangerous driving, official papers in the British National Archives recently revealed. The diplomat, Setsuo Matsuzawa, a first secretary ...