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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.
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 ...
Han Song Ryol, the North Korean diplomat who serves as his country’s principal liaison with the United States, has spent the better part of the past two decades exploring the prospects for a normalized bilateral relationship with Washington. From his perch at North Korea’s ...
The Defense Ministry has deployed Patriot PAC-3 antimissile air defense units to three Self-Defense Forces installations, in Tokyo and Chiba, to defend against possible North Korean missile strikes, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday. The PAC-3 units were deployed to the Defense Ministry’s ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will seek a consensus with his Group of Eight counterparts on urging North Korea to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula and to comply with U.N. resolutions banning nuclear and missile tests at a meeting this week in London. The ...
Responding to regional worries over North Korea’s bellicose threats, China on Sunday expressed concern and what appeared to be veiled criticism of its longtime ally. “No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains,” ...
Despite years of tensions, a majority of South Koreans have long clung to a cautiously optimistic vision for their peninsula’s future. Even if North and South Korea weren’t one day unified, the thinking went, the countries would at least be connected by joint business ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera orders the Self-Defense Forces to prepare to intercept ballistic missiles from North Korea, although the likelihood of an attack is slim.
With North Korea issuing apocalyptic threats of nuclear war in recent weeks, Western powers have been reminded of what could happen if they fail to find a solution to Iran’s disputed nuclear program, experts say. World powers “are now even more anxious not to ...
Foreign diplomats in North Korea mull an evacuation advisory as concerns grow that the isolated state is preparing a missile launch and as nuclear tensions soar.
North Korea has moved a second midrange missile to its east coast and loaded both on mobile launchers, a report said Friday, fueling fears of an imminent firing that will further ramp up tensions. Yonhap news agency, citing a top South Korean official, said ...
Japan faces threats to its land, sea and airspace, as well as to the lives of its people, as Chinese vessels repeatedly enter waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the government’s annual foreign policy report said Friday. Under such circumstances, ...
Japan will prolong economic sanctions against North Korea for two more years and take additional financial steps to punish it for violating a U.N. resolution against nuclear testing, officials said Friday. In the meantime, all exports to and imports from North Korea remain banned ...
As the North Korean crisis heats up, lawmakers in the United States are asking themselves — how far is too far?