Top trade negotiator Toshimitsu Motegi says Japan and the United States have agreed on broad outlines of a trade agreement and if reached it may be inked by the end ...
The transport ministry will provide subsidies to help municipalities take safety measures to reduce the amount of vehicular traffic in areas close to nursery schools and other facilities where children ...
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres urges Japan and South Korea to mend ties
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges Japan and South Korea to mend relations after Seoul scraps a military intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo amid disputes over trade.
Japan aims to put quantum cryptography into practical use from 2025
The government plans to accelerate research and development of quantum cryptography technology with the goal of putting it into practical use starting in 2025.
Docking of unmanned Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot to ISS is aborted
Tanzania says South Africa has impounded one of its Airbus planes
GSDF band takes part in international military music festival in Moscow
Jamaican bringing honey into U.S. was held for 82 days, lost jobs
Family of first enslaved Africans in America marks 400 years 'building where you came from'
2020 Olympics traffic control plan based on license plates scrapped
Authorities have scrapped the idea of restricting usage of Tokyo's Metropolitan Expressway during the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics based on a random selection of private vehicle license plates, sources said Friday. The organizing committee for the games and the central and Tokyo Metropolitan governments decided ...
LDP to begin discussing stricter penalties for road rage cases
Japan's UNESCO sites struggle to cultivate cultural cachet while keeping urban bustle at bay
Las Vegas Sands to focus on Tokyo-Yokohama area for casino, abandoning support for Osaka
Chinese became largest foreign community in Okinawa in 2018, excluding U.S. military personnel
Trump raises tariffs on Chinese goods as trade war escalates
U.S. President Donald Trump angrily escalated his trade fight with China on Friday, raising retaliatory tariffs and ordering American companies to consider alternatives to doing business there. He also blamed Jerome Powell, the man he appointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve, for the state ...
Tokyo-Seoul row hits economies
Toyota has plenty for robots to do during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
July core inflation hovers at two-year low, piling pressure on Bank of Japan
South Korean passengers to Narita down more than a third this summer amid Tokyo-Seoul tensions
Abe and Trump to meet on G7 sidelines in Biarritz for possible trade discussion
North Korea fired two apparent ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday morning, the Japanese government and South Korean military said, a day after Seoul severed a key intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo. The Japanese Defense Ministry said the weapons were "apparently ballistic missiles," ...
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, feeling the heat, authorizes army to help fight Amazon fires
U.K. officials encouraged by Johnson's Brexit talks with Merkel and Macron
Russian nuclear blast theories hint at no-holds-barred arms race
Evoking 1968, Biden asks: What if Obama had been assassinated?
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro defiant as global concern over Amazon forest fires escalates
Russia launches floating nuclear reactor in Arctic despite warnings of 'Chernobyl on ice'
Brooks Koepka leads Tour Championship by one stroke at midway point
World No. 1 Brooks Koepka took a one-shot lead at 13-under at the midway point of the season-ending Tour Championship on Friday, while Hideki Matsuyama produced four bogeys and a double-bogey in a disastrous second-round 75. Matsuyama, who started the day in seventh place, made ...
Japan rallies in second half to beat Germany
Wakana Nagahara, Mayu Matsumoto secure women's doubles bronze at Badminton World Championships
Meet the women reframing black femininity in Japanese spaces
Ebony Bowens and Tynelle Pozdnyakov dip into Japanese fashion subcultures in an effort to challenge stereotypes and have a little fun while doing it.
The odd blunder is OK at your local dad-to-be class
Plan your response before taking on passive prejudice at the office
Dealing with the death of a friend while in Japan
Schedule some time to learn the uses of 'yotei'
The word "yotei" can translate as "schedule" in English, but it also means "plans." That makes it very useful in and out of the office.
Don't sweat phrases that use the word 'ase'
'Dance With Me': A homegrown Japanese musical has landed
Genres never really die, but they often mutate into something different on foreign soil. John Ford's cowboys became Akira Kurosawa's samurai, and Kurosawa's samurai became Sergio Leone's serape-clad, cigarillo-chewing "The Man With No Name." And the list goes on. The same is true of that ...
Aichi Triennale: Our freedoms are not dead just yet
It's time for Summer Sonic to think beyond the music
'Dance With Me': Short on laughs, but big on energy
'It Feels So Good': An explicit escapade, artfully told
Japanese tech companies are making changes to attract better talent. They can do more.
A termination of the defense intelligence pact threatens to escalate the fraying of Japan-South Korea relations. We urge the Moon administration to think twice about its decision.
Beijing's efforts to manipulate online opinion in Hong Kong and abroad have a long way to go.
To build the 5G network infrastructure in the U.S. smoothly and at a low cost, the U.S. and China should discuss their high-tech frictions and explore a solution.
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