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A court has recognized the “right to identity” in a case filed by a man demanding the disclosure of information on someone who allegedly impersonated him online.
Women and men clad in ancient Japanese court dress took part in an annual clock festival Friday at a shrine to a seventh century emperor in Shiga Prefecture who is said to be the founding father of the clock time system in Japan. As musicians ...
Taishukan Publishing admits to breaking industry rules by providing free classroom materials to schools that agreed to use its English textbooks this year.
Japan's largest copyright collection group is seeking arbitration in summary courts nationwide against 212 hair salons, restaurants and apparel stores that allegedly failed to pay fees on background music, its spokesman said Friday. The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC), filed ...
Urayasu’s groundbreaking subsidy plan to improve the nation’s birthrate may offset roughly 80 percent of the cost of freezing healthy women’s eggs.
A nonpartisan group of Okinawa Prefectural Assembly members on Friday lodged a protest with the Japanese and U.S. governments over the alleged rape and murder of a Japanese woman in April by a civilian U.S. employee of Kadena Air Base. The protest was lodged in ...
With its ubiquitous Phantom drones, Chinese manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co. brought aerial photography to millions. Now, with dozens of competitors biting at its heels, the world's biggest producer of consumer drones needs to prove that its products are more than just glorified selfie ...
The life of Emi Morikawa, 17, changed dramatically after she learned computer programming. Morikawa was just another high school student who liked to study English. But now the young programmer runs her own web venture, which she founded after graduating from high school. "As I studied ...
The U.S. Navy on Friday lifted a restriction confining sailors to bases while off duty, four days after it curtailed their liberty following a drunken-driving incident in Okinawa. However, an alcohol ban remains in place for all sailors based in Japan and those passing through, ...
Japanese traders are selling ivory tusks to Chinese buyers in Japan, knowing that they will be illegally exported to China, an international conservation group said Thursday as it screened an undercover video showing the transactions. The video, taken by the U.S.-based Environmental Investigation Agency, showed ...
Popular television presenter Mao Kobayashi, 33, has been battling "serious" breast cancer for the past 20 months and is undergoing treatment, her kabuki actor husband, Ichikawa Ebizo, said Thursday. He said the disease is "spreading really fast," and doctors have warned the couple that they ...
Firearm owners have no constitutional right to carry a concealed gun in public if they face no specific danger, a divided federal appeals court in California ruled on Thursday, in a victory for gun control advocates. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Duskin Co., operator of the U.S.-founded Mister Donut chain, said Thursday it will acquire Malaysian doughnut chain Big Apple Worldwide Holdings Sdn. Bhd. in December to expand its business in Southeast Asia. Duskin said it will buy a 90 percent stake in BAWH, which was ...
Nissan Motor Co. is recalling a total of 240,966 vehicles in Japan due to flaws in the steering system and defective screw holes that could stop the cars from running, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism said Thursday. Note compact cars manufactured between ...
Japan should recognize Taiwan in exchange for Taipei's acknowledgement of Japan's sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands.
President Xi Jinping can't solve China's pressing problems through tighter political control.
Sacrificing values is the price multinationals pay to access China's growing market of middle-class consumers.
There are fundamental gaps between the American and Japanese perceptions of China.
From my seat on the second floor of Shochu Zanmai, a bar specializing in Japan's indigenous distilled liquor, I can see directly into the building across the street. The bar is located down a narrow alley a 10-minute walk from Tokyo's Ikebukuro Station, and ...
In 2013, UNESCO gave Japanese cuisine, or washoku, Intangible Cultural Heritage status, an unwieldy mouthful that left some people wondering, "What's that?" A recent lunch at Okina, near the tourist mecca of Arashiyama in northwest Kyoto, provided a clear path through the official language. Hordes ...
Many of Kyoto's traditional wooden machiya townhouses are being renovated, and one of the most enchanting ones that has recently opened to the public can be found a few minutes walk from the endless stream of tourists visiting Kiyomizu Temple. Ichikawaya Coffee is housed in ...
Deep-fried kara-age chicken has been a much-loved staple at convenience stores in Japan for decades. One of the longest-running varieties is Lawson's Kara-age Kun, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the convenience store chain is producing a range of special flavors. The ...
In addition to singing and dancing, the popular male idols managed by Johnny & Associates do a lot of educational TV, including "Aiba Manabu" ("Aiba Learns"; TV Asahi, Sun., 6 p.m.), in which Masaki Aiba, a member of boy band Arashi, learns about some ...
Yoshitomo Tsutsugo's eighth-inning RBI single broke up a tie game and starter Yasutomo Kubo pitched into the eighth as the Yokohama BayStars defeated the Orix Buffaloes 3-1 in interleague action on Friday. Tsutsugo came up with bases loaded with one-out and hit a line single ...
John "Helicopter" Humphrey, one of the now-dissolved bj-league's original stars, has been hired to coach the American Basketball Association's RDC Vulcans, an expansion squad. The Vulcans made the announcement on Thursday. According to published reports, two other expansion teams are also set to join the ABA: ...
The Japan Basketball Association announced Friday that the men's national team will play against George Washington University in a three-game series in August. The "Akatsuki Five" and Colonials will play their first game at Maishima Arena in Osaka on Aug. 13, and will travel to ...
In the National Football League they say offense wins games, defense wins championships. The spelling and terminology may be slightly different, but it is a similar story when it comes to the World Cup and European Championship. A team could play outstanding attacking football in ...
The B. League unveiled its inaugural regular-season schedule, which begins this fall, on Friday. The 2016-17 season will start in late September and end in early May. Each team in the first (B1) and second divisions (B2) will play 60 games during the regular season. In ...
