In a potential setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Russian President Vladimir Putin is showing no signs of softening his position on negotiations over concluding a peace treaty with Japan.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture rocked widespread areas early Tuesday, triggering tsunami warnings. Tsunami warnings were issued along the Pacific coast, including Aomore, Iwate, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures. People have been warned to evacuate immediately ...
Todaiji, one of the most prestigious Buddhist temples in Japan, and other religious sites in Nara Prefecture have been vandalized with some type of liquid.
The head of swimming’s international governing body says he is not expecting the new aquatics center for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to have any of the headaches that organizers in rio were forced to deal with. “Our executive director came here one month ago, ...
Self-Defense Forces personnel with broader mission parameters to use their weapons start arriving in South Sudan.
Yosuke Tsuruho, the minister of state for Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, has returned money paid for tickets to a fundraising party because an individual is suspected of purchasing them under different names, a practice prohibited by law, his office said. On Jan. 11, ...
China has indicted a Japanese man who was detained last year for alleged espionage, a Japanese government source said Monday. Of four Japanese who were detained by Chinese authorities in 2015 in separate cases on suspicion of spying activities, the man from Sapporo is ...
A Yokohama man was arrested Monday after admitting he stole a company president’s wallet during a job interview earlier this month. “I wanted to work for that company, but since I haven’t got a job I needed money,” Shogo Takeda, 24, said in owning ...
Two people were found dead on Sunday and Monday near the top of 3,776-meter Mount Fuji after falling from a trail, police said. According to the Shizuoka Prefectural Police, Ibuki Suemoto, an 18-year-old university student from Hiroshima Prefecture, called the police from his cellphone ...
Japan must undertake a major review of the way its decades-long alliance with the United States works and adopt a more proactive approach toward its top ally after Donald Trump takes office in January, a veteran Diet member says.
A 22-year-old Japanese man was shot dead in the Colombian city of Medellin this weekend, local media reported. The reports said Ryo Izaki was chasing a pair of suspects who had allegedly taken his mobile phone and tablet computer when he was shot twice ...
Top officials from the education ministry and the city of Yokohama met Monday to discuss how to better prevent school bullying in the wake of the harassment of a transfer student from Fukushima. Hiroyuki Yoshiie, senior vice education minister, said during the meeting with ...
The police have renewed their investigation in a hospital in Fukuoka Prefecture following the discovery of a small hole in an intravenous drip bag after perforations were found in three IV bags there in October.
