Abductee Minoru Tanaka and missing coworker Tatsumitsu Kaneda alive in Pyongyang: report
North Korea reportedly informs Japan that Minoru Tanaka of Hyogo, who vanished in 1978 in a suspected North Korean kidnapping, is living in Pyongyang with his former coworker.
Abe's attacks on local governments yields backlash against his push to revise pacifist Constitution
Prime Minister Abe’s dream of revising the Constitution gets harder after he claims 60 percent of Japan’s local governments are resisting Tokyo’s efforts to recruit new SDF members.
The Cabinet approves a bill to recognize Japan’s ethnic Ainu minority as an indigenous people for the first time, after decades of discrimination and assimilation.
South Korean lawyers to start sale of Nippon Steel's assets over wartime labor
Lawyers visiting from South Korea say they will soon liquidate assets seized from Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. in a wartime labor ruling to compensate the four plaintiffs.
Ikea woos India's rising consumer class, tapping new markets
Greenback slips to around ¥110.30 in Tokyo on weak U.S. and Chinese economic data
Abe and Austria's Sebastian Kurz agree to expand tourism and economic cooperation
Environmental campaigners have filed an unprecedented lawsuit in a bid to halt the so-called drive hunting of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, arguing that the practice is cruel and illegal. In drive hunting, fishermen force dolphins into a cove by beating on boats to disorient ...
Interpreter for Oita marathon closes blog after calling African athletes 'chimpanzees' in post
Taro Kono looks to visit China in late March to enhance economic ties
Man arrested over stabbing of two, said to be former colleagues, near Korakuen Station
¥100 million in old bank notes donated to western Japan prefecture
South Korea plaintiffs eye liquidating assets seized over wartime labor case
Sadako Ogata: Waging peace on war
More than a year of work to bring Amazon.com Inc.'s headquarters and tens of thousands of jobs to New York City ended on Thursday with a couple of phone calls. Jay Carney, the company's top policy executive, told New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that the ...
Struggling furniture retailer Otsuka Kagu forms tie-up with Yamada Denki
Seven Ikinari Steak restaurants in New York to close due to poor profitability
Abide by the claw: Ruling tightens Norway's rights on Arctic snow crab and boosts its claim to oil
Goldman sees a bargain in resilient Japanese cram school with focus on private tuition
Congress OKs border deal; Trump will sign, declare emergency
Congress lopsidedly approved a border security compromise Thursday that would avert a second painful government shutdown, but a new confrontation was ignited — this time over President Donald Trump's plan to bypass lawmakers and declare a national emergency to siphon billions from other federal ...
Hong Kong snares record haul of rhino horns from South Africa
In Myanmar, new parties challenge Suu Kyi's grip on power
Bellwether for stumbling African democracy: Nigeria goes to the polls
Mitch McConnell says Trump will sign border deal, then declare national emergency
U.S. cancer death racial gap narrows but still higher for blacks
Longtime Timberwolves fan Mitsuaki Ono seeks to foster Japan relations with Minnesota
Like countless sports fans, Mitsuaki Ono can pinpoint a formative period in his life that cemented his fandom. The Kawasaki native was living in Rochester, Minnesota, during the 1989-90 school year because IBM assigned his father, Koji, to work in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. As ...
Sunwolves confident ahead of battle against Sharks in Super Rugby opener
Rika Kihira sets sights on world title during practice session with Satoko Miyahara
Knicks snap 18-game skid with win over Hawks; Pelicans' Davis injured
Starting fresh in Tokyo is easier than you think
I know what you're thinking: Moving to Tokyo is going to be a whole world of stress. That's what I thought at least. There was the language barrier, the fact that I had no idea where in the city I wanted to live and ...
The man who set the bar for British pubs in Yokohama
Plastic fantastic: Examining the obsession over Japan's soft vinyl toys
It's a cold afternoon in mid-January and, inside a factory operated by Maruyama Toys in a quiet residential area in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, Cory Privitera is making sofubi (soft vinyl toys). In a cramped workspace surrounded by machinery and long sinks, the 33-year-old begins by ...
Pioneering flexibility and empowerment in retail
With charm and color, Japanese farmer works to bring konnyaku to the world
Mom-friendly tomato farm bears more than just fruit
Eyehategod spreads the sludge metal gospel
Eyehategod shouldn't have lasted three decades. "I was there when we started the band and if you had told me back then that we were going to be still going on 30 years later ... to say that this band would've been the one that ...
Could 'Shoplifters' or 'Mirai' pick up an Oscar? The chances are slim but real
Twenty years after frontman Shinji Sato's death, Fishmans is still walking in the rhythm
'Born Bone Born': A family reunited by a skeletal bath
Chai's 'Punk' is an irrepressibly upbeat victory lap
While Chinese behavior needs to change, unilateral action by Washington is not the way to achieve that objective.
Ignoring the popular will of the prefecture, which hosts 70 percent of the bases solely used by the U.S. military in Japan, would not be good for the Japan-U.S. security alliance.
Despite the low odds of success for the second Trump-Kim summit, there is no alternative to diplomacy in the search for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Beijing and Moscow are teaming up to diminish Washington's global influence, spread tyranny and undermine democracy.
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