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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
The government has not given a convincing reason why the U.S. Marine Corps will train with Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in Shiga and Kochi prefectures in October.
Japan and the United States plan to give the go-ahead at a high-level meeting this week to revise the bilateral accord on realigning U.S. Marine Corps personnel in Okinawa, as well as defense cooperation guidelines in response to China’s military buildup. The planned revision ...
Dugongs, an endangered marine species, in 2012 were inhabiting the reclamation site in Okinawa chosen for the relocation of the U.S. Futenma base, the first time their presence has been confirmed there in three years, a survey by the Okinawa Defense Bureau revealed Saturday. ...
The Cabinet Office is seeking ¥340.8 billion in the fiscal 2014 budget to promote economic development in Okinawa Prefecture, hoping it will help persuade the prefecture’s leaders to sign off on the plan to move the U.S. Futenma air base to a less populated ...
The U.S. Marines resume transferring MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to Okinawa, triggering criticism a week after a fatal U.S. Air Force chopper crash in the prefecture.
The U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa said two more Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft arrived Saturday at the Futenma base from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The Ospreys, part of a batch of 12, were expected to fly out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on Saturday morning, ...
Keiko Itokazu, 65, who opposes the government’s plan to replace U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma with a new airstrip in a less-populated part of Okinawa Island, won an Upper House seat Sunday by defeating Liberal Democratic Party candidate Masaaki Asato. The Okinawa electoral ...
The ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party is likely to win a comfortable majority in Sunday’s Upper House election — a necessity to control all standing committees in addition to the chamber itself, a Kyodo News survey showed Tuesday. ...
Forty-one years after Okinawa reverted from U.S. administration to Japan, Okinawans are not happy about the U.S. military presence or Japan-China territorial tensions.
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, coleader of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), is expected to sign a policy agreement with a local Okinawa political group that supports relocation of the Futenma military base within the prefecture.
The Senate clarifies that funding for realigning U.S. forces will be denied until a clear timetable and cost estimate for replacing Futenma airbase is provided.
As long as Okinawans are stuck with having to host Futenma functions at Henoko, their resentment of future plans for U.S. military facilities will deepen.