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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama aim to hold a bilateral summit in 2015 and may compile a joint document about expanding the U.S.-Japan alliance.
A small fire broke out inside the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine compound and police arrested a 25-year-old man, who allegedly told them he was thinking of committing suicide through self-immolation.
Takashi Uchiyama had his first bout of 2014 on the very final day of the year. In fact, it was his first fight in exactly a year, since last New Year’s Eve. That long layoff didn’t bother the 35-year-old champion, however. Uchiyama defended his ...
The Japanese government said Wednesday it will send two Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers and three helicopters to help with search efforts after an AirAsia jetliner crashed off Indonesia with 162 people on board. The destroyers and helicopters will leave for the suspected crash site ...
He turns 35 in January, but Yasuhito Endo, Japan’s most-capped player, says he has no intention of taking his foot off the pedal as he enters his 13th year with the senior national team. Endo has enjoyed an outstanding 2014 season and was deservedly ...
The number of people aged 20, the legal age of adulthood in Japan, was estimated to have reached 1.26 million on New Year’s Day 2015, the first increase in 21 years, government statistics showed on Wednesday. Of that total, 650,000 are men and 610,000 ...
The City Football Group is looking to set up a Japanese subsidiary by next summer with an eye on eventually owning a controlling stake in the J. League’s Yokohama F. Marinos, sources have told Kyodo News through Wednesday. CFG, which owns Premier League champion ...
Homare Sawa has long been the face of Japanese women’s soccer, single-handedly carrying the sport years before its national team received the affectionate moniker of “Nadeshiko.” Since making her full international debut at the age of 15, Sawa has appeared in five World Cups ...
The old Kobe Bryant sure looked an awful lot like the young Kobe Bryant. That’s what a little bit of rest will do. Bryant had 23 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds for his 21st career triple-double, and the Los Angeles Lakers held off ...
By the time Jim Harbaugh walked onto the court at halftime of the Michigan basketball game, his homecoming had turned into a full-fledged pep rally. “I pledge to you that we will do our very best to carry on the great tradition of Michigan ...
Notre Dame and senior kicker Kyle Brindza got the finish they had missed too often the last half of the season. Beating a Southeastern Conference team in southern territory only made it that much sweeter. Brindza hit a 32-yard field goal as time expired, ...
The Edmonton Oilers haven’t had enough wins this season to complain about the ones they get. David Perron’s shootout goal snapped the Oilers’ nine-game losing streak in a 3-2 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. The Oilers ...
Goals set because people feel they should make them are less likely to be accomplished, experts say, while aspirations that don’t rely on the calendar to achieve them are a safer bet.
At least one former employee of Sony Corp. may have helped hackers orchestrate the cyberattack on the company’s film and TV unit, according to security researcher Norse Corp. The company narrowed the list of suspects to a group of six people, including at least ...
A former police officer accused of spying for communist China in one of the former British colony’s highest-profile espionage cases has died, according to reports Tuesday. Top Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping, paid tribute to John Tsang Chao-ko, whose memorial service was held ...
A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an official with Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said, raising questions about how the disaster unfolded. Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, ...
The education ministry plans to help municipalities re-purpose vacant public schoolrooms as nursery centers and facilities for the elderly. As families have fewer children the number of vacant classrooms is increasing. The ministry therefore aims to help local authorities to put the premises to ...
A gray wolf killed by a Utah hunter may have been Echo, a female who attracted national attention after wandering through several states to become the first of the protected animals seen at Arizona’s Grand Canyon in 70 years, officials said on Tuesday. The ...
With as many as five rocket launches scheduled, 2015 is set to be one of the busiest years ever at the Tanegashima Space Center. For the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s first shot of the year from the island base in Kagoshima Prefecture, an H-IIA ...
Former administrative reform minister Renho has given up her plan to run in the Democratic Party of Japan’s presidential election Jan. 18. She said on her Facebook page she couldn’t obtain the necessary 20 recommendations from DPJ lawmakers. Renho, who goes by just the ...
