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Beijing has announced plans to put two more lighthouses in the disputed South China Sea into operation by the end of the year, state media has reported. Construction on lighthouses on Mischief and Fiery Cross Reefs — both in the contested Spratly Island chain — ...
Nearly 90 percent of people aged 18 and 19 taking part in an internet poll say the political parties have not done a good job explaining their policies ahead of the Upper House election.
Public calls for Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe to step down grow despite his apology a day earlier and a pledge to refund some of the ¥4.4 million he misspent.
China told the United States on Tuesday that it should play a constructive role in safeguarding peace in the disputed South China Sea, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for talks and a peaceful resolution. China claims most of the South China Sea, ...
Two ships loaded with Japanese plutonium and highly enriched uranium reach South Carolina for disposal and reprocessing.
A Tokyo museum housing a tuna boat that was coated with radioactive fallout from an American hydrogen bomb test in 1954 is fighting quietly to remind people about the horror of nuclear weapons. Crew members of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 who sickened and ...
An 84-year-old atomic bomb survivor called on U.S. President Barack Obama to make further efforts to abolish nuclear weapons in a letter she handed to a close aide of the president during a meeting Monday in Washington. "I wrote, 'We must act for the future ...
Global defense chiefs meeting in a plush hotel in Singapore over the weekend were faced with one of Asia's biggest looming security challenges, but left without any tangible sense of how to tackle it. The elephant in the room at the Shangri-La security forum was ...
In a study that began in April 2014 to check the impact of the 2011 Fukushima reactor meltdowns, 30 children have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 27 others are suspected of having the disease, according to a prefectural government panel. Most of ...
Japan's largest trading houses are positioning themselves in Cuba before any easing of U.S. sanctions, seeking opportunities in infrastructure, resources and automobiles as Havana emerges from near-isolation. Mitsubishi Corp., the nation's largest trader, opened an office this month in Havana and is currently researching potential ...
The Bank of Japan should abandon its two-year time frame for achieving 2 percent inflation to avoid the pressure of having to take more drastic measures to reach the distant goal, a former BOJ executive director has said. "It's already conducting very bold stimulus," Kazuo ...
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani met Monday with Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's de facto leader, in Naypyitaw, expressing Japan's intention to offer support from the Self-Defense Forces toward capacity-building in Myanmar's military. Suu Kyi thanked Nakatani for the support. "I would ...
President Barack Obama welcomed the Denver Broncos to the White House on Monday to congratulate the Super Bowl champions for their victory over the Carolina Panthers and send off retiring quarterback Peyton Manning with words of praise. "I have to say I'm so pleased to ...
The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and two colleagues is set for July 7, about two weeks later than originally scheduled, Russia's space agency said Monday. The rescheduling came after the country's media reported recently that the launch is ...
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday rejected a barrage of criticism from his own party over his allegations of bias against a Hispanic judge, insisting his concerns were valid. "All I want to do is figure out why I'm being treated unfairly by ...
The Japan Conference represents a new approach to a civil movement based on traditional right-wing values.
The prosecutors' decision not to charge former economy minister Akira Amari and his aides expose the limitations of the anti-graft law.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is a reactionary masquerading as a revolutionary.
A Democratic neoconservative, Hillary Clinton's public values include a willingness to go to war for frivolous reasons and a willingness to wreck entire nations while pursuing failed policies.
In 1980s America the art scene fawned over the infamous "Brat Pack" group of writers that included Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Donna Tartt and Tama Janowitz. They portrayed American (privileged) youth in that decade like it was — with all their nitty gritty ...
The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art's current exhibition, "1945±5: The Works that Survived through the Turbulent and Reconstruction Era," showcases modern Japanese art five years either side of the pivotal end of World War II. It addresses oil painting and mostly follows a conventional ...
June 14-July 31 The French term "toile de jouy" translates as the "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas," a chintz-producing town in the south-west suburbs of Paris, and it refers to a specific style of textile that was used for both clothing and furnishings. These monochromatic printed textiles ...
June 11-Sept 4 The Kyoto International Manga Museum is hosting an entire exhibition dedicated to Hisashi Eguchi, one of Japan's most prominent manga artists. Best known for his series "Susume!! Pirates" and "Stop!! Hibari-kun!," Eguchi has been called a leading "pop art" innovator of manga. This ...
June 12-July 21 One of the oldest glass-working techniques, pate de verre is a complicated and time-consuming kiln method that involves pressing glass powder into a mold for casting, followed by careful cleaning and polishing. The technique originated with the ancient Mesopotamians and was given ...
Japan's 11-match unbeaten streak came to an end in its last warm-up for the final round of Asian qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup on Tuesday night, Vahid Halilhodzic's men going down 2-1 to Bosnia-Herzegovina in the four-nation Kirin Cup final. Hiroshi Kiyotake put Japan ...
Takahiro Norimoto didn't allow a single earned run in eight innings against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, striking out eight in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' 5-1 interleague victory Tuesday. Norimoto improved to 6-3, moving into a tie for the Pacific League lead in wins after ...
Kenta Ishida, one of two young lefties at the heart of the Yokohama BayStars' pitching renaissance, was announced as the Central League's May pitcher of the month on Tuesday. But Ishida was just one of four first-time winners as unheralded Hanshin Tigers catcher Fumihito Haraguchi ...
The NBA Finals still is the big story in basketball, and it will be for the next week or so no matter the conclusion. Can the Golden State Warriors finish off the greatest winning season in NBA history? Will Stephen Curry continue to amaze? Will LeBron James ...
Of all the episodes in the iconic boxing career of Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at age 74, perhaps the most curious came in a Japanese ring.
