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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 ...
A Boston-based human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera victims, apologize for introducing the disease through its peacekeeping force and launch a major effort to improve ...
The newly renovated Trusteeship Council at the U.N. headquarters is using 260 chairs made in Yamagata Prefecture. Asahi Sofu Manufacturing Co. was asked to make the armchairs, which will be used by delegates in the multipurpose chamber. Denmark, working with the United Nations, is ...
Western nations have "hard evidence" that chemical weapons have been used at least once in the Syrian war but a U.N. investigation team is now unlikely to get into the country, diplomats say.
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 ...
Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda, dubbed “The Terminator,” was behind bars at the International Criminal Court on Saturday after turning himself in to face charges ranging from murder and rape to the use of child soldiers. The first suspect ever to hand himself ...
Muslim and Western nations on Friday overcame deep divisions to agree on a historic U.N. declaration setting out a code of conduct for combatting violence against women. Iran, Libya, Sudan and other Muslim nations agreed to language stating that violence against women and girls ...
North Korea responds to new U.N. sanctions with fresh threats of nuclear war, the abolition of peace pacts with South Korea and the severing of a hotline with Seoul.
A Japanese high school student who survived the 2011 tsunami recounted at the U.N.’s New York headquarters her experiences of the disaster and how young people are playing a critical role in rebuilding her hometown in Miyagi Prefecture. “We want people to realize the ...
South Korea’s decision to support a United Nations investigation into human rights abuses by North Korea signals that Seoul’s new conservative administration is willing to pressure its neighbor on such issues — even if it hurts the chances for engagement. South Korea’s pledge Wednesday ...
North Korea stages its most powerful nuclear test yet, claiming a technological breakthrough with a "miniaturized" device in a striking act of defiance to global powers, including its sole patron, China.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday congratulated Self-Defense Forces personnel involved in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Israeli-held Golan Heights during a ceremony at the Defense Ministry. The SDF began pulling its 47 soldiers out of the area in late December after being ...
Government-level talks began Sunday at the United Nations in Geneva on forming an international treaty to regulate mercury trading and prevent environmental and health problems arising from the toxic substance. Government representatives from more than 140 countries are participating in the talks to craft ...