South Africa’s ambassador to Japan sent a letter of protest to the Sankei Shimbun daily over a column by prominent author Ayako Sono praising apartheid as a model for Japan’s ...
A Japanese tourist was temporarily detained by the Kurdistan Regional Government after entering war-torn northern Iraq earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry announced late Saturday night in Tokyo. The man, ...
A Japanese woman who is missing in Syria with her French husband had been urged by the Foreign Ministry not to visit areas controlled by Islamic State jihadis.
Demonstrators march through central Tokyo against what they allege is the "passion-based capitalism" of Valentine's Day; rest of the nation enjoys annual fete of romance.
A leading member of the Liberal Democratic Party and South Korea's president agree on the need to settle the "comfort women" impasse within the lifetimes of the aging victims.
The suspect in the deaths of three Muslim college students in North Carolina had at least a dozen firearms stashed in his home, according to search warrants released Friday as world leaders decried the shootings. Warrants filed in court listed an inventory of weapons ...
Apple Inc. has a secret lab working on the creation of an Apple-branded electric car, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The project has designed a vehicle that looks like a minivan, the newspaper quoted one person as ...
Kei Nishikori beat American qualifier Austin Krajicek 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the Memphis Open. Nishikori, ranked fifth in the world, shook off eight double-faults and struggled with unforced errors off his backhand. But Nishikori improved to 11-1 in ...
The frenzy of the hostage crisis and the visceral terror of the Islamic State group's executions have for a moment ushered Syria into Japanese youth's sphere of concern.
I’ve only just arrived at Mount Koya and I already feel like I’ve cheated on my pilgrimage. Backpack-laden foreigners are mingling with Japanese pilgrims sporting walking sticks and conical hats in the town’s snowy train station parking area. But my stalwart travel companion, Felicity, ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first English-language translation of “Kusamakura” (literally “Pillow of Grass”), a 1906 novella by one of Japan’s greatest writers, Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). Published in 1965, Alan Turney gave the book a new title for ...
The U.N. Population Fund estimates that 14.2 million girls under 18 are married every year, some as young as 8. Ending child marriage is one ways women around the world will achieve greater equality.
Japan may be the most miserly country in the world when it comes to getting workers to feel free to use their legally entitled number of paid holidays each year.
Global understanding does not come cheaply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has budgeted ¥70 billion — yes, that’s more than $500 million — to help get the word out about Japan and ensure that China and South Korea aren’t the only ones controlling the ...
As Pope Francis was returning from the Philippines to Rome last month, he raised the issue of whether it is legitimate for outside agencies to promote family planning in developing countries. There are several reasons why it is.
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