A murder investigation is launched after an 88-year-old man dies from a suspected poison medical drip at a Yokohama hospital. Three other suspicious death are also being probed.
The mayor of Fukui has canceled a trip to its South Korean sister city of Suwon over its aborted plan to erect a statue in Germany of a girl symbolizing ...
Police arrest a senior member of a crime syndicate and two others for allegedly taking bets on baseball games, including from former Yomiuri Giants players.
The government is considering legislation to oblige Tepco to obtain approval from local governments if it applies for restarting its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power station.
A 20-year-old Mazda Motor Corp. worker was arrested Saturday for allegedly killing a colleague at a company dormitory in Hiroshima and robbing him of cash, police said. Suguru Kamikawa is suspected of beating Kyohei Sugano, 19, to death with a fire extinguisher in an ...
When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face off in their first presidential debate on Monday, they will have their best chance yet to win over the 27 million Americans who have yet to decide who to vote for. In some ways, this group looks ...
Yahoo on Friday faced pointed questions about exactly when it learned about a cyberattack that exposed the email credentials of 500 million users, a critical issue for the company as it seeks to prevent the breach from affecting a pending takeover by Verizon Inc. ...
Elvis Andrus had been dealing with flu symptoms and kept his celebration rather subdued after the Texas Rangers clinched the AL West, so he asked manager Jeff Banister afterward to please put him in the lineup again Saturday. He promised to be ready to ...
Survey of nearly 600 women reveals that many feel society places pressure on them to meet narrow Japanese definition of beauty.
What is most remarkable about Hiroshi Sambuichi’s work is the sensation of air and wind movement that the shapes of the architect’s buildings encourage. The experience is testament to Sambuichi’s philosophy that architecture should work in harmony with the environment surrounding it so that ...
Non-Japanese have written great books about Japan. Almost all of these masterpieces are nonfiction: essays, memoirs, monographs, histories, travel books. One might place, for example, Alan Booth’s “The Roads to Sata,” Donald Richie’s “Ozu,” Edward Seidensticker’s “Genji Days,” and Nicolas Bouvier’s “The Japanese Chronicles” ...
The authorities had better tread very carefully when deciding whether to change the spousal tax deduction system.
The LDP has every right to weaken or even end the term limits on its presidents, but should it do so now just to keep Shinzo Abe in power?
The media has been abuzz about the emergence of three prominent Japanese female politicians: Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Defense Minister Tomomi Inada and Renho, the head of the Democratic Party. However, the significance of this development is limited. Overall, politics in Japan remains a ...
Information technology has democratized so many elements of our lives. By democratizing the law, perhaps it can save globalization — and the international order.
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