Voters prepare to go to the polls Sunday as a typhoon threatens to tip the odds in favor of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative ruling coalition.
Under pressure from the U.S., Japan tweaks its annual U.N. resolution against nuclear weapons to imply their use might be acceptable in some cases.
Part of the Joban Line reopens in Fukushima Prefecture as the region continues to recover from the 3/11 mega-quake, tsunami and nuclear disasters.
Polyglot police officers and automated multilingual speakers will be deployed in Shibuya this year to control the growing mob of Halloween revelers converging on Tokyo.
The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics will provide a key opportunity for Japan to promote a more inclusive society, sports experts said at a symposium in Tokyo on Friday. They also said the games should help Japan consider what it can do to develop sports for people ...
Australia's prime minister on Friday dismissed an extraordinary letter from North Korea to the Australian Parliament and other countries as a "rant" against President Donald Trump and a sign that Pyongyang is "starting to feel the squeeze" of escalated sanctions. The letter from the North ...
A Tokyo-based startup recognized for its laundry-folding robot has gained entry to an international competition for venture firms, and hopes to represent Japan as a country of innovation. Seven Dreamers Laboratories Inc. was chosen as Japan's entry for the Startup World Cup on Wednesday night ...
Yuzuru Hanyu settled for second place on Saturday at the Cup of Russia. American Nathan Chen, the silver medalist at last year's Grand Prix Final behind Hanyu, started the day with a 5.69-point lead over the Japanese superstar and scored 193.25 in the free skate ...
Lack of legal regulation means the worst facilities continue to taint Japan's image abroad.
At a certain level, the act of resettling overseas unsettles the idea of home itself. It ruptures the narrative of belonging that we construct through attachments to people and places. For the immigrant, home is no longer an immutable fact, but a space between ...
"It's actually surreal that it's finally out," Beck Hansen says of his 13th album, "Colors." "It's the longest time from inception to release I've ever had. It's been like a rebirth." Beck knows a thing or two about renewals. As alternative rock's shape-shifting outlier, the ...
The demographic challenges confronting the nation are indeed enormous, but the regional revitalization policy of the Abe administration has so far accomplished little.
Even if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe survives the election, he shouldn't forget he still owes the people a full explanation of the Kake Gakuen and Moritomo Gakuen scandals.
Volkswagen's recent failure to lock in the price of cobalt for five years points to a serious problem with the optimistic projections of an electric vehicle revolution.
Japan might be a very different country today if Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibahi hadn't handed the reins of power over to Nobusuke Kishi after just 65 days in office.
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