U.S. reveals it will push for comprehensive free trade agreement despite Japan's objections
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration will push for a free trade agreement with Japan and signaled his eagerness to seek a further opening of the country's agriculture ...
Tsunekazu Takeda to leave JOC and IOC posts amid scandal
The announcement was made following accusations that bribery was involved in Tokyo being chosen as the host city for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Japan should "urgently" revise a law that effectively requires transgender people to be surgically sterilized if they want legal recognition of their gender identity, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Under a ...
Japan to invite guests from 195 nations for events marking enthronement of new Emperor
A banquet to be hosted by Abe on Oct. 23 for the new Emperor will feature Japanese cultural performances, which will be overseen by kyogen actor Mansai Nomura.
Restaurant chain operator Skylark to impose total smoking ban from September
Don't take this North Korea guidebook with you, warns publisher
Venezuelans struggling to cope with 'social earthquake' of hyperinflation and hunger
The Naha District Court on Tuesday ordered the central government to pay ¥80,000 in damages to an award-winning author who was detained for entering a restricted area while protesting in Okinawa Prefecture. Shun Medoruma, 58, was held in U.S. custody for eight hours on April ...
Vietnamese blue-collar workers in Japan seen facing risks as labor system opens up
Tokyo residents mourn victims of New Zealand mosque shootings
Japan's Cabinet OKs amendment that bans corporal punishment after spate of tragic cases
Japan's government adopts bill to prevent padding of disabled employment figures
Rakuten's Hiroshi Mikitani has a new goal for his 17,000 workers: Learn to code
Less than a decade after stunning workers at his tech giant with an edict to learn English, billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani wants to do the same with computer programming. Rakuten Inc. may soon expect its more than 17,000 employees to know how a computer compiles a ...
Number of foreign visitors to Japan rises 3.8% on year in February, as arrivals from China dip
Stakes rise for Boeing as EU and Canada up scrutiny of 737 Max after crashes
Republican president-picked judges grill lawyers suing over Trump's Washington hotel
Trump renews attack alleging social media's political bias favoring Democrats
As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing Co. 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit. That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jump seat, correctly ...
South Korea's ruling party retracts critique of Bloomberg reporter
Smoking high-potency marijuana on a daily basis raises psychosis risk, study finds
'Trump of the Tropics': Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. president declare special relationship
Boulder-strewn surface poses snag for NASA plan to scoop up dirt from asteroid
Beto O'Rourke makes early impression in Pennsylvania visit, adds to chorus against Electoral College
Mike Trout, Angels on verge of finalizing record $432 million, 12-year deal
Mike Trout is on the verge of becoming baseball's first half-billion dollar man. Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record for the largest deal in North American sports history, a person familiar ...
Ex-coach Christophe Jean sues Naomi Osaka over 20 percent of earnings
Yuzuru Hanyu insists he's ready for worlds after recovering from ankle injury
Longtime baseball voices going, going, almost gone
Seattle left-hander Marco Gonzales maintains normal focus for first Opening Day start
Non-Japanese people are poorly represented in Japanese media: That needs to change
For almost a decade, the Japanese TV show "Why Did You Come to Japan?" has operated on the premise of finding foreign tourists and asking them the titular question. It might seem like an innocent query at first, but in fact this show and ...
Irish eyes are smiling in Japan
Your 'Japanese experience' doesn't have to be 'Japanese only'
A new approach to volunteering in Tohoku
Hay fever season gets people sneezing and talking
A good way to start a conversation in Japanese at this time of year is to talk about allergies and hay fever in particular. Learning the vocabulary for sore eyes and runny noses can also help at your local pharmacy.
Hay fever can make life hard enough to use the adjective 'tsurai'
A teenager named 'Prince' changes his name out of embarrassment
Tourism-heavy period encourages flexible hiring
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival offers a world of fascination
Held annually from 1990, save for 2007 when its host town was facing financial difficulties, the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival has become a little corner of Hokkaido where for four days in March the cinematically weird and wonderful can flourish. I had long wanted ...
Le Corbusier: Foundations of an architect
Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara ousted over relationship with actress
Relief measures for the victims of forced sterilization should be promptly taken; their plight had already been left unattended for too long.
We must all stand with New Zealand, and against the ignorant hatred that motivated last week's attacks.
Which view prevails will greatly impact the lessons learned from the Ghosn case.
The monolithic dominance of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over the Australian media landscape has few counterparts in other democratic countries, and it is reflexively anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant.
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