Abe and Vladimir Putin set to hold summit on isle projects but may also address North Korea
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to talk about starting economic projects on the disputed isles but might touch on North Korea as well.
LDP ditches push for aircraft carrier, calls for multipurpose 'mother ship'
The Liberal Democratic Party wants Japan to build a ship that can deploy a wing of deadly stealth fighter jets but won’t be called an aircraft carrier.
Kake Gakuen, one of two school entities at the center of favoritism allegations involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, denied Saturday that its head met with him in February 2015 as ...
Chewing gum as you walk may help you stay slimmer: Japanese study
The study says chewing gum while walking at a natural pace raises one’s heart rate, travel distance and energy expenditure.
Controversial Japanese labor reform bill clears Lower House committee
Yubari melons fetch record ¥3.2 million at season's first auction
Rich, powerful celebrities like film producer Harvey Weinstein better-armed to face sex charges
Imperial Couple distressed by speculation about delay in Princess Mako's marriage
You can't plan for bad luck in the long winter of life
Wisdom is age and age is wisdom. Confucius, summing up his life, said, "At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the line." It's as good a definition of wisdom as any. The reverence children owed their parents was boundless but not burdensome — ...
Fish parasite outbreak puts sales of raw bonito on the ropes
Moritomo chief Yasunori Kagoike freed on bail, dares Abe to ‘tell the truth’ about Osaka land deal
LDP panels back Japanese government's pursuit of capability to attack in self-defense
Japan to look at raising age limit for special child adoption
Trump lawyer says White House wants briefing on classified info linked to Russia probe
President Donald Trump's legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and may take it to the Justice Department as part of an effort to ...
Close aide to Kim Jong Un returns to Pyongyang after mystery trip to Beijing: sources
Vladimir Putin says will step down as president after term expires in 2024
Ireland set to end abortion ban in landslide vote, exit polls show
Emails show collaboration among Environmental Protection Agency and climate-change deniers
Harvey Weinstein arrested on rape, criminal sex act charges
Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano now entering ocean from three flows
Revelations that an Amazon Echo smart speaker inadvertently sent a family's private conversation to an acquaintance highlights some unexpected risks of new voice-enabled technologies. According to Amazon, the fault was an "unlikely" series of inadvertent vocal cues that triggered the speaker, caused it to begin ...
Tesla agrees to settle class action over Autopilot system that was billed as 'safer'
Data shows women still struggling to advance in Japan's corporate world
Bitcoin for otaku: Tokyo startup to launch cryptocurrency to serve communities
Tesla boss Elon Musk bashes media, proposes credibility check and gains Twitter fans
Trump inks bill that 'rolls back the crippling Dodd-Frank' rules put on banks after crisis
Akita group gives puppy to Olympic champion skater Alina Zagitova
Russian Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova received an Akita puppy Saturday from a group preserving the Japanese dog breed at a presentation ceremony in Moscow attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Zagitova plans to name the red-haired female Akita dog Masaru, meaning victory in ...
Ex-players troubled by Nihon University's handling of scandal
Kwansei Gakuin unmoved by Nihon Univ. apology
Can the success of Alex Ferguson's 'kids' and Arsene Wenger's 'Invincibles' be linked to Buddhist philosophy? It's worth a try.
My company didn't enroll me in the Japanese social insurance program. What to do?
Calling on chefs to lead the charge against overfishing
Chefs for the Blue and its partners, NGO Sailors for the Sea Japan and consulting firm Seafood Legacy, are part of a small but growing movement to promote sustainable seafood in Japan.
Rafaela Takeshita: This conservationist certainly doesn't monkey around
Bistro de Yoshimoto: French cuisine with some flare
Hood by Vargas: Whimsy, Americana and sandwiches
Stay clear away from Asahi's Clear Latte
Twenty-five years on, Alan Booth's voice is brought back to life
"This Great Stage of Fools" offers a collection of Alan Booth's uncollected journalism and writings between 1979 and his untimely death in 1993. Booth is be considered one of the greatest writers on Japan of his generation.
'Of Dogs and Walls': A concentrated hit of Yuko Tsushima
'Cult X': The Fuminori Nakamura novel we've been waiting for
Morgan Freeman apologizes after multiple sexual harassment claims
Young filmmakers looking to follow in Hirokazu Kore-eda's footsteps have their work cut out for them
Dirty play has no place in college football, or any sport.
Japan must work with the U.S. to prevent a return to the earlier antagonism that marked U.S.-North Korea relations and to keep together the coalition that is maintaining pressure on Pyongyang.
Through DNA samples in online genealogy databases, police have a powerful tool to find the guilty — and exonerate the innocent.
Regional universities should not be taken lightly anymore; now is the time for them to shine.
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