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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to enhance the region’s financial cooperation, despite the absence of the Chinese and South Korean finance ministers. At the so-called ASEAN Plus Three meeting involving East Asia’s three largest economies, ...
China and South Korea skipped a meeting of finance chiefs from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea on Friday in India, their officials said. The ASEAN Plus Three meeting was to be the only opportunity for the finance ...
Finance ministers and central bank governors from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were set to agree on enhancing financial cooperation when they met Friday on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting. With Japan looking to deepen economic ties ...
Sixteen Asia-Pacific countries are set to start talks next month on a free-trade zone that would cover more than half of the world’s population, according to a document obtained Tuesday. The start of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership are poised to go ...
In his first overseas visit as prime minister, Shinzo Abe enhanced Japan’s relations with three Southeast Asian countries in an apparent bid to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the region. During his whirlwind four-day tour of Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia, which was cut short ...