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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, May 14, 1913 Illuminations reap a tidy profit for city Tokyo city has withdrawn the illuminations at Hibiya which it made for the benefit of the ...
The backlash against Osaka political maverick Toru Hashimoto escalates over his remarks justifying Japan's wartime sex slave system and his suggestion that U.S. soldiers in Okinawa use more prostitutes.
Buildings constructed during Japan’s occupation of Manchukuo, a puppet state set up in China, have received official protection from Beijing, state media reported Thursday. The move to preserve the buildings ...
100 YEARS AGO Tuesday, April 8, 1913 Japan protests U.S. state’s ‘anti-aliens’ bill A New York dispatch of April 5 ...
Tears roll down Heitaro Matsumoto’s face as the 72-year-old businessman talks of an uncle who died on Guam as a ...
The Finance Ministry in 1962 considered allowing South Korean individuals to seek damages for World War II-linked suffering during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, according to diplomatic records disclosed recently, a civic group said Monday. The records were among classified documents on ...
A fossil found last May by a boy in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, has been confirmed as the toe bone of a Coelurosauria, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived in the latter part of the Cretaceous period around 85 million years ago, a researcher said Friday. ...
New Jersey’s lower house has voted to pass a resolution recognizing the women and girls forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war. Introduced to the state legislative body last September, 76 of the 80 assembly members approved last Thursday the ...
100 YEARS AGOSaturday, March 8, 1913 Yokohama conflagration Another big fire swept through Yokohama early yesterday morning, resulting in the destruction of about 300 houses. It originated on the premises of Magosaku Nishioka in Fukutomi-cho [now part of Naka-ku] about half-past three when it ...
Foreign Ministry officials in 1958 debated the acquisition of “defensive” nuclear weapons and reported their interest to the U.S., newly declassified documents show.
The deletion from YouTube of statements by Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) lawmaker Nariaki Nakayama denying the Imperial Japanese Army forced thousands of Asian females to provide sex for soldiers during the war has once again put NHK under the national spotlight. ...
Tokyo denied any involvement in a reported plan by Adolf Hitler to escape to Japan at the end of World War II, declassified Foreign Ministry documents show.
Allied prosecutors probed the delay in delivering U.S. President Roosevelt's letter to Emperor Hirohito on the eve of war, apparently to establish that the foreign minister was to blame for failing to stop the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Foreign Ministry burned about 8,000 files of highly classified documents shortly before the nation’s surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, according to Japanese diplomatic records declassified Thursday. In early November 1945, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers General Headquarters began questioning senior ministry ...
South Korean President Park Geun Hye on Friday urged Japan to squarely face up to past historical issues, alluding to its brutal colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. “We can open up a future of common prosperity with Japan only when Japan honestly reflects ...
The battle had raged for four days, and would continue for 31 more, a marathon of sand and heat and unrelenting death. But at that moment there was an order from the brass: Get a bigger flag up there. The small American flag fluttering ...
Three former students who were involved in making paper balloon bombs at a Nagoya school during the war saw and touched the “washi” (traditional Japanese paper) used to make the balloons for the first time in 68 years on Feb. 16. The paper used ...