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A large crowd gathered Tuesday evening in Tokyo's Shinjuku district for a candlelight vigil to mourn the victims of the LGBT nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida. The event near Shinjuku Ni-chome, Tokyo's main LGBT neighborhood, drew over 130 participants. They gathered in Hanazono Nishi Park, ...
Early Sunday morning, Omar Mateen walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and indiscriminately began firing an assault rifle into a crowd of revelers. He took the lives of 49 people and critically wounded dozens. In the wake of this massacre, large and small vigils ...
The trial of a South Korean who has admitted to setting a small explosive at Yasukuni Shrine in late November begins at the Tokyo District Court.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., the biggest shareholder in Mitsubishi Motors Corp., will hold onto its stake in the automaker that Carlos Ghosn is seeking to turn around following a fuel-economy test scandal. The maker of power plant equipment, aircraft and ships will refrain from selling ...
Evacuees in the town of Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, begin moving into temporary housing units two months after major earthquakes forced them from their homes.
Faced with increasing calls from environmentalists to phase out coal, Japan is standing by its support of the fossil fuel, saying it will help developing countries adopt the best available technologies for coal-fired power plants. Pressure to rein in carbon dioxide emissions is intensifying, especially ...
Packed among houses and small factories in a semi-industrial area of Kawasaki, Sou Sou resembles a regular hotel. How it differs is that it serves the dead. Dubbed an itai hoteru (corpse hotel), Sou Sou is a storage venue for bodies before they are taken ...
"Forces of opposition bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered." That's how one advertisement reads for a semi-automatic rifle made by Bushmaster, whose AR-15 is increasingly the gun of choice for America's mass shooters, including the suspect in Sunday's massacre at a gay dance club in ...
A black watermelon grown in Toma, Hokkaido, sold Tuesday for ¥500,000 in the year's first auction of the popular fruit. Around 260 Densuke watermelons, known for their black and shiny skin as well as their crunchy texture, were auctioned off Tuesday at fresh produce markets ...
The Cabinet on Tuesday endorsed a set of key personnel changes at the Foreign Ministry, including the appointment of Shinsuke Sugiyama, deputy foreign minister in charge of political affairs, as the ministry's top bureaucrat. The 63-year-old Sugiyama, former director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs ...
The Niigata Municipal Government is appealing a court ruling that recognized late-onset Minamata disease, which is caused by mercury poisoning from industrial pollution. The Niigata District Court ruled May 30 that clear symptoms of the disease can appear long after the intake of methyl mercury ...
The Democratic Party will pledge in the coming Upper House election campaign to enhance social security, with the funding coming through reforms, and oppose revising the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9, according to sources. DP leader Katsuya Okada argued earlier that the government should rely on ...
Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara said Japan is ready to lead the way in putting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty into force at an early date. Kihara signaled the government's stance in a speech to a one-day ministerial-level meeting in Vienna to commemorate ...
Sony Corp. said Monday its landmark building in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district will be torn down after it closes in March 2017. The land the Sony Building stands on, a 707 sq.-meter plot at the Sukiyabashi intersection, will be cleared to make way for a ...
The effort to revive the crested ibis on Sado Island serves as a reminder that humans are responsible for the disappearance of many species, but that with the right efforts humans can also save endangered species from extinction.
Corporate Japan should not continue to miss the opportunity to brand itself as a hub of sustainability excellence.
The flayed corpses of Prime Minister David Cameron and the Conservatives are a disincentive for future British governments to offer referendums, the most direct form of democracy.
The vast majority of U.S. corporate media outlets appear to have had their thumbs on the scale for Hillary Clinton throughout the Democratic primaries.
It's been a few years since the last big Pierre-Auguste Renoir exhibition in town. The last one, if I remember correctly, was "Renoir: Tradition & Innovation" at the National Art Center Tokyo (NACT). That brought over the French impressionist's "Dance at Bougival" (1883), an ...
Hajime Sawatari is 76 and alone. He's technically still married, but found that photography and chasing skirt didn't sit well with being in a monogamous relationship. "I want to be free to photograph what I want. I'm very self-centered," he tells me, disarmingly. In the early ...
June 21-Sept. 19 The Tokyo National Museum is taking visitors on a journey to ancient Greece to look back at one of the world's greatest classical civilizations. With exhibits that date from the Neolithic Period (5,000 years ago) to the post-Alexander Hellenistic Period (323-31 B.C.), ...
June 25-Aug. 28 As one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance, sculptor and painter Michelangelo Buonarroti is best known for the ceiling mural of the Sistine Chapel, his marble pieta (Mary mourning Christ) sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica and the huge statue ...
June 18-July 18 In the early 1900s, thousands of Japanese hoping to escape poverty, emigrated to Brazil. Photographer Haruo Ohara, who was among those seeking to make money overseas, became a farm laborer in Sao Paulo. He first started taking photos as a hobby but ...
The Hiroshima Carp were forced to wait out a lengthy video decision, but were declared 3-2 winners over the Seibu Lions on Tuesday, after catcher Tatsuyuki Uemoto left his leg in the base line before a play at the plate in which the runner ...
New Miami Marlins skipper Don Mattingly gently rocked back-and-forth and swung side-to-side in his swivel chair as he entertained MAS inside the manager's office in the Marlins clubhouse. The man known as "Donnie Baseball" for the tremendous skill and elan he played with as a ...
A controversial call cost the Lixil Deers a Pearl Bowl victory and gave the IBM BigBlue a first X League title. Kevin Craft threw three touchdown passes as the BigBlue survived a late comeback by the Deers to wrap up a 21-20 victory in the ...
The Urawa Reds may consider legal action against the person who taunted Kashima Antlers Brazilian midfielder Caio with racist tweets, the J. League first-division club announced on its website Monday. The tweets were made after Antlers defeated Reds 2-0 on Saturday. Urawa said that on Sunday ...
Right-hander Yu Darvish has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to tightness in his neck and shoulder, the Texas Rangers said Monday. Darvish underwent an MRI exam in Arlington and tests found no significant damage to his right shoulder, but the team decided ...
The J. League first-stage title may ultimately count for nothing when the championship playoffs begin in November, but that will not stop the current front-runners from wanting to claim the silverware. Only three teams can now win the first stage after a weekend round that ...
