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Japan Airlines is investigating what caused a battery on a Boeing 787 to emit smoke during preflight maintenance, a year after a fire on one of the carrier’s Dreamliners helped spur the grounding of the global fleet.
Six members of a local citizens’ watchdog group file a civil suit against the city of Osaka, demanding that Mayor Toru Hashimoto repay the nearly ¥700,000 bill the city footed after he canceled a trip to the U.S. last June.
A taxi company in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, home to a nuclear power plant, refuses service to Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Masatoshi Akimoto due to his stance against atomic power.
The government approved Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s revised 10-year business plan Wednesday that includes its hope to restart reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture this summer. Faced with drastic increases in the cost of fuel for thermal power to compensate for ...
Running in fear for his life or just to escape it? A British businessman who mysteriously disappeared from Tokyo last year, sparking speculation of misadventure, has turned up back in England, safe and sound, according to a British media report. Garin Dart, former CEO of ...
An 11-year-old elementary school girl from Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, missing since Saturday was found safe early Wednesday, police said. Michi Shinozaki was found in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. The fifth-grader vanished while taking her dog for a walk. According to the police, Shinozaki called the Chigasaki Police Station ...
Suntory Holdings Ltd. plans to borrow as much as $12 billion to finance the purchase of Beam Inc., two sources said. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.'s lending unit has agreed to provide a bridge loan of $10 billion to $12 billion for the acquisition, the ...
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus luxury line aims to grow as much as 10 percent annually for the next 30 years as it expands in the U.S., its biggest market, as well as in emerging markets from China and Vietnam to Brazil and Peru. "I'm trying ...
Honda Motor Co., trailing General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. in U.S. subcompact car sales, will try to boost deliveries with a new Fit hatchback that will be made in North America for the first time. The 2015 Fit shown this week at the ...
Just 160 km from the northern tip of Hokkaido, Sakhalin is a desolate island that has long been ignored by world powers. Remnants of Japanese shrines are reminders that the island was governed by Imperial Japan until the end of World War II. Now this ...
A website called Buyma, billing itself as a "social fashion site," is connecting individuals looking for luxury brand products unavailable in Japan with people abroad willing to buy them on their behalf. The main overseas buyers for the site, which is managed by a company ...
Exercising the brain through physical rehabilitation may be the key to treating vertigo patients whose affliction can't be cured with medication, an expert says. Vertigo is dizziness arising from a balance disorder that can be caused by various factors, including ear problems and mental stress. ...
The advent of the "Internet of things," the ever-expanding array of connectedness between computer sensors and consumer devices, promises convenience as well as privacy and security concerns.
The bold ruling outlawing discrimination against those born to unmarried parents in inheritance cases shows the court honing its powers of review into a more precise tool — one that can be used more surgically, and perhaps more assertively, in the future.
Many of us foreigners living here know deep down that we and many of our friends are at least mild alcoholics, masking each other's addictions, and the allure of alcohol is not an easy monkey to get of your back. It's difficult in any ...
From melon to books, eggs and stewed morsels, interviewees around Tokyo share their most wonderfully weird vending machine encounters.
"Anyone can enjoy being be a tap dancer in their daily life; all you have to do is casually make a rhythm with your feet when you're walking down the street," Japan's leading exponent of the art, Kazunori Kumagai, insists — seemingly oblivious to ...
Most kabuki plays have at their core a dramatic historical episode. Around this, there's generally a colorful, oft-times melodramatic and action-packed confection of intrigues, loyalties, romances, self-sacrifice and villainy founded on varying degrees of fact — or simply fashioned as pure fiction. In "Sanzenryō Haru ...
Since it was founded in 1990 by Shakespeare scholar, actor and director Kaoru Edo, Tokyo Shakespeare Company has been producing the Bard's plays translated by Edo in an adaptation series titled "Shakespeare on the other side of the mirror." Now, at the 100-odd-capacity Geki Sho-gekijo ...
In an intriguing double-header, two of photography's more colorful characters are exhibited together at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, providing an interesting glimpse of art form as play.
Big man Adrian Moss delivered a gutsy 20-point, 21-rebound performance to lead the Bambitious Nara to a 70-60 series-opening victory over the Saitama Broncos on Wednesday night. The 204-cm Moss, who starred on the 2006 NCAA Division I champion University of Florida Gators, led all ...
Asked what brought him over to Japan to take a head coaching job, Donte' Hill assertively answered with one word: basketball. Hill, 35, said that he considered Japanese basketball offered a great opportunity to take its game to the next level with the launch of ...
Being picked as an All-Star starter should be reserved for players having All-Star-caliber seasons. Sure, the popularity of a player factors into the equation, but there's no legitimate reason for a player who has basically become an afterthought to be named an All-Star starter. Unfortunately, bj-league ...
Promotion-chasing ozeki Kisenosato huffed and puffed his way past Okinoumi to stay one win off the pace at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday. Hakuho, the tournament favorite in the injury-enforced absence of fellow yokozuna Harumafuji, remained perfect and tied for the lead ...
