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In a contest with major implications for the government and military ties with the U.S., campaigning is about to start in the city chosen to host the Futenma replacement base.
Keiko Awaji, who featured in the 1954 Hollywood movie "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" and films by Akira Kurosawa and Yoji Yamada, dies at a Tokyo hospital.
Imagine you are a parent whose child is being taught propaganda. What do you do? Teach your children the truth and watch their grades slip as they lose interest in school? Or turn a blind eye, knowing their future careers will depend on their ...
Is there a level of fear above which the mind reflexively retreats from imagining the worst? The Great East Japan Earthquake was often described as being "beyond imagination," and the art and science of projecting future catastrophes has had to adjust accordingly.
A group of ruling party members is alleging that U.S. government officials and lawmakers they met with in Washington understood the aim of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent visit to war-related Yasukuni Shrine, a move roundly lambasted throughout Asia. The lawmakers from Abe's Liberal Democratic ...
The federation of labor unions for Toyota Motor group firms decides to demand a pay-scale hike at upcoming spring wage talks for the first time since 2009.
A woman is arrested after breaking into the house of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for a second time, apparently to see one of his sons.
Nuclear regulators on Friday called on Tokyo Electric Power Co. to take action to address rising radiation levels at the border of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant's premises, which have jumped to levels eight times higher than the regulatory limit. According to plant operator ...
Given its recent enactment of the state secrets protection law, how soon will Japan start to appear on the annual lists of imprisoned journalists put out by the Committee to Protect Journalists?
Two recent conflicting reports from government ministries expose the conundrum at the heart of the question of whether computers are helpful to education.
Japan is hardly alone in confronting shame about past events and whether to describe them in textbooks. Germany, the United States and China are undergoing similar debates.
An old tale from Kumano tells of a hunter who was out one day with his dogs when he spotted a large boar. Stretching his bow, he took aim and loosed an arrow deep into the body of the beast.
A billion hungry souls lacking your misplaced sense of entitlement want your job for a quarter of the pay.
Another new year has arrived and a Hokkaido blizzard is tearing past my window, drifting snow onto every surface as if it means to drown out the world in whiteness. Thankfully it also brings a muffling silence into which thoughts pop and crackle. As ever ...
"Godzilla" first appeared in cinemas across the country in November 1954 but its story line was heavily influenced by an incident eight months earlier at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The sound effects team initially tried to create Godzilla's distinctive shriek by using animal roars that had been tweaked through editing. They sampled all kinds of birds and mammals, but nothing seemed to be a suitable match for the reptilian noises such a monster ...
Many books about anime and its makers have been published abroad in English and other languages, but few are by Japanese critics and scholars. In Japan, it’s the reverse, with non-Japanese anime writers excluded from publishers’ lists.
Kouhei Nomura published a glossary titled "The Godzilla Encyclopedia" in 2004 after six months of dedicated research. He delivers his verdict on why the king of the monsters is so popular worldwide.
When "Kitchen," the debut novel by Banana Yoshimoto, was first released in Japan in 1988, it caused such a stir that the media frenzy around her was dubbed "Bananamania." Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto, Faber and Faber, fiction Her tale of love and loss clearly struck a ...
"Columbo" remains one of the most beloved American TV series in Japan and has generated dozens of local copies. One is police Lt. Fukuie, the creation of mystery writer Takahiro Okura. Fukuie is a woman whose persistence tries the patience of not only her ...
Chunichi Dragons catcher/manager Motonobu Tanishige began his workouts this year with a vow not to change anything about the way he prepares for the season.
Teenager Sara Takanashi claimed victory to win a record 14th career individual World Cup title at the Sapporo meet on Saturday. The 17-year-old Takanashi soared with leaps of 99 and 94.5 meters on the HS 100-meter, K-90 hill for a total of 254.5 points to ...
Ace right-hander Masahiro Tanaka returned to Japan Saturday from a short visit with major league clubs in the Los Angeles area. The 25-year-old Tanaka presumably has met, along with his agent Casey Close, a number of big league teams who have shown interest in pursuing ...
