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Japan's hopes of sending a men's volleyball team to the Rio Games look to be slipping away as on Tuesday at the Olympic qualification tournament, Poland sent Masashi Nambu's men to their second consecutive straight-sets loss. Poland, the reigning world champions ranked No. 2 in ...
Shinnosuke Abe made his belated season debut in style, hitting a go-ahead two-run home run in the Yomiuri Giants' 3-2 win against the Orix Buffaloes as interleague action got underway Tuesday. With a runner on first and two outs in the sixth inning at Kyocera ...
Japan lock Hitoshi Ono has been suspended for the June 11 test match against Canada after he was sin-binned for headbutting an opponent in the Sunwolves' 66-5 loss to the Brumbies last weekend, SANZAR announced on Tuesday. Ono was sin-binned just before halftime in Saturday's ...
Japan's hopes of sending a men's volleyball team to the Rio Games look to be slipping away as on Tuesday at the Olympic qualification tournament, Poland sent Masashi Nambu's men to their second consecutive straight-sets loss. Poland, the reigning world champions ranked No. 2 in ...
For "Cy Twombly Photographs: Lyrical Variations" Chiba Prefecture's Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art brings together exactly 100 photographs, chronologically arranged to span the length of the artist's career. A selection of prints, paintings and sculptures are also being shown, to be reconsidered in ...
Barcelona's five-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi went on trial on Tuesday along with his father on accusations of defrauding the Spanish state of millions of euros. Argentine-born striker Messi and his father Jorge Horacio Messi, who have both denied the allegations, were ...
Painters and trees have a lot in common. Both are light-catchers: the painter looks at the world around him and tries to capture it, while a tree catches the light in order to grow. Trees are also part of the world that many artists ...
June 11-Sept. 22 The Centre Pompidou in the heart of Paris is renowned for its bold glass and metal exterior and futuristic transparent tube escalators, but it's also famous for housing the Musee National d'Art Moderne, which has one of the world's largest collections of ...
June 7-July 10 Perhaps best-known for his mind-boggling optical illusions, Maurits Cornelis Escher (M.C. Escher) illustrated books, designed postage stamps and produced close to 450 lithographs, woodcuts and engravings, and well over 2,000 drawings and sketches. His most famous works include the "Ascending and Descending" ...
June 4-July 10 Nature and the movement of elements are the main inspirations behind Susumu Shingu's work, which include huge geometric kinetic sculptures that sway with the movement of water, wind and air currents. For this exhibition, however, the 78-year-old artist looks to the stars by ...
The city of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Wednesday began issuing certificates recognizing same-sex partnerships as equivalent to marriage, the fourth local government in Japan to do so. The city of Naha in Okinawa Prefecture is expected to follow suit in July. The Takarazuka Municipal Government is ...
Japanese-Cambodian comedian Hiroshi Neko will represent Cambodia in the men's marathon event at this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, a senior Olympic official in Cambodia told Kyodo News on Tuesday. Vath Chamroeun, secretary general of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, said the ...
Japan has once again secured berths in all 14 judo weight categories for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics as the International Judo Federation released the latest world rankings on Monday. According to the qualification guideline set by the IJF, the top 14 men and top ...
The Japanese rugby players association was launched on Tuesday, with president Toshiaki Hirose saying he was confident it would improve the Japanese game. "I want to work with the firm belief the players association is an organization that will improve Japanese rugby," said former Japan ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso says he will support the expected decision to delay the increase in the consumption tax, backpedaling from earlier criticism that doing so would renege on an election pledge.
Suzuki Motor Corp. said Tuesday fuel economy tests that failed to meet regulations affected a total of 2.14 million units across 26 models. But it added, the models were retested and found to have better performance than their catalog figures. Speaking at a news conference after ...
The U.S. and Japanese governments need to take a number of steps to build strong relationships with local communities in Okinawa that are hosting U.S. bases.
A strong economy will prove every bit as important as defense equipment as Vietnam contemplates its security needs.
The Abe administration's attempt to silence critical media coverage could cause the nation's downfall.
Raising the consumption tax would once again treat the symptoms of Japan's economic malaise, not the causes.
