U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration will push for a free trade agreement with Japan and signaled his eagerness to seek a further opening of the country’s agriculture market.
LDP lawmakers questioned a Google executive over the company’s data protection and transaction practices as part of efforts to tighten regulation on information technology giants.
Hayabusa2 detects minerals containing water on Ryugu asteroid
Hayabusa2’s findings may provide a clue to solving the mystery of the origin of Earth’s water. Scientists say that at least part of the water came from asteroids and comets.
The top court has given its approval for the retrial of a nurse who was convicted of murdering a 72-year-old male patient at a hospital in Shiga Prefecture and has ...
Poll: More Americans want immigration to stay the same or more newcomers
Wary EU to May: Brexit delay until June 30 is contingent on Parliament yes vote for her deal
Boeing, FAA officials called to testify in U.S. Senate on 737 MAX jetliner crashes
AP-NORC poll: Most Americans at least partly confident in Russia probe
Srebrenica survivors applaud life sentence handed to Radovan Karadzic by appeals judges
Smiling may help Japanese election candidates win more votes, study claims
With a spate of public office elections scheduled in the country this year, findings from a study by a university professor may offer good advice for those planning to run in the polls — smiling could earn candidates more votes. In an occasion that occurs ...
Japan urged to lift sterilization requirement for transgender recognition
Museum devoted to 'visas for life' diplomat Chiune Sugihara to open in Tokyo
Vietnamese blue-collar workers in Japan seen facing risks as labor system opens up
Yamanote Line train driver fulfills life's dream, down to the exact second
Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani has a new goal for his 17,000 workers: Learn to code
Less than a decade after stunning workers at his tech giant with an edict to learn English, billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani wants to do the same with computer programming. Rakuten Inc. may soon expect its more than 17,000 employees to know how a computer compiles a ...
U.N. rights chief: U.S. sanctions could deepen Venezuelan economic crisis
With 737 MAX grounded, airlines face daily scheduling and route challenges
Mexico president talks U.S. investment to stem migrant flow with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner
Trump dampens hopes and stocks, says China tariffs may remain for 'substantial period'
Toyota to build new hybrid cars for Suzuki in Brexit-facing U.K.
U.S. Supreme Court: Google class-action case over privacy should be revisited
Trump says he does not mind if public sees Robert Mueller's 'ridiculous' Russia probe report
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller's report should be released to the public, even as he disparaged its very existence as "ridiculous." "Let it come out, let people see it," Trump told reporters as he left the White House ...
Microscopic tardigrade 'water bears' able to survive extreme heat, cold, radiation, space
Gay lawmaker who fled Brazil amid death threats: Bolsonaro 'turned me into a pariah'
'There is death all over': Cyclone Idai toll tops 300 as floods increase, aid trickles in
Cockpit voice recorder of doomed Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix, sources say
Mariners newcomer Yusei Kikuchi eager to make first MLB start
When Yusei Kikuchi makes his first start as a major league player at Tokyo Dome on Thursday, he won't be too far away from Seibu Dome, where he stood on the mound for the first time as a professional in June of 2011. "In terms ...
ESPN report: Robert Kraft's legal team seeks to suppress video evidence in solicitation case
Chiba's Michael Parker continues to improve potent offensive game in latter stages of stellar career
Ichiro hitless, but Mariners outslug Athletics in MLB season-opening game
Joe Torre weighs in on blockbuster contracts, wages in minors, pace of play
Non-Japanese people are poorly represented in Japanese media: That needs to change
For almost a decade, the Japanese TV show "Why Did You Come to Japan?" has operated on the premise of finding foreign tourists and asking them the titular question. It might seem like an innocent query at first, but in fact this show and ...
In search of family and friends in Japan
Irish eyes are smiling in Japan
Your 'Japanese experience' doesn't have to be 'Japanese only'
Hay fever season gets people sneezing and talking
A good way to start a conversation in Japanese at this time of year is to talk about allergies and hay fever in particular. Learning the vocabulary for sore eyes and runny noses can also help at your local pharmacy.
Hay fever can make life hard enough to use the adjective 'tsurai'
A teenager named 'Prince' changes his name out of embarrassment
Tourism-heavy period encourages flexible hiring
U.S. film tells story of Japanese boat exposed to 1954 nuclear test
For many Americans, the story of the Japanese fishing crew that was exposed to a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean 65 years ago may be a footnote in history easy to overlook. But Keith Reimink, a 40-year-old American documentary filmmaker, reacted differently ...
'Makuko': Love, life and that same old E.T. story
'Shinjuku Tiger': A story of one man and his mask
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival offers a world of fascination
Le Corbusier: Foundations of an architect
China's top leader will face his first real test as a leader as the country confronts powerful headwinds.
Relief measures for the victims of forced sterilization should be promptly taken; their plight had already been left unattended for too long.
In much of Asia, the left-right ideological struggle is over and it is technocracy and technology that now reign supreme.
The nation's best-selling travel guide tends to heavily stress crime and danger in other countries.
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