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Major textbook publisher Taishukan Publishing Co. has been distributing study materials for free to public high schools in Gifu and Nagasaki prefectures despite the practice being banned, prefectural education boards have revealed. Gifu Sogo Gakuen High School reported to its education board that it had ...
A 19-year-old male is appealing a district court ruling that sentenced him to an indeterminate prison term of between six and 10 years for his involvement in the brutal murder of a teenage boy on a riverbank in Kawasaki last year. The defendant, whose name ...
After weeks of mounting pressure over a political funds scandal that has tainted his office, Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe on Wednesday submitted a letter of resignation to the Tokyo assembly speaker, which takes effect on Tuesday. A gubernatorial election to replace Masuzoe is likely to ...
North Korea appears to have ramped up its nuclear weapons production over the past 18 months in defiance of strict United Nations sanctions and could possess as many as 21 atomic bombs, a U.S. research institute said Tuesday. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International ...
In an aggressive move, a Chinese naval reconnaissance vessel enters waters near Kuchinoerabu Island off Kagoshima Prefecture.
An election committee official says choosing a successor may cost Tokyo taxpayers as much as ¥5 billion.
The firm reveals it used improper fuel economy data on more than 10 models that are no longer being sold.
The driver of a local train on the JR Musashino Line temporarily lost consciousness due to sleep apnea syndrome on Monday, resulting in the train far exceeding its speed limit, East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday. At around 1:20 p.m. on Monday, the driver, in ...
The number of foreign visitors has risen faster than last year, with more than 10 million arriving in the first six months, the Japan Tourism Agency said Tuesday. It took about seven months to reach the 10 million threshold in 2015, when a record 19.74 ...
Despite protesting the murder of a local woman and calling for revisions in the U.S. Status of Forces Agreement, local Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito officials will not take part in what may be the biggest Okinawan anti-base rally in nearly two decades. Organizers hope ...
Jun Ishikawa on Tuesday became the first Japanese independent expert to be elected to the United Nation's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Blind for over 40 years, Ishikawa is chairman for the Committee on Disability Policy with the Cabinet Office. He said he ...
The U.S. Navy's 3rd Fleet will send more ships to East Asia to operate outside its normal theater alongside the Japan-based 7th Fleet, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, a move that comes at a time of heightened tensions with China. The 3rd Fleet's Pacific ...
In late March, 65 English assistant language teachers, or ALTs, effectively lost their jobs after dispatch agency Interac lost a contract with the Sapporo Board of Education. It was shocking news for the ALTs, many of whom have families to support. "Interac offered people classes outside ...
The Japan Tourism Agency on Wednesday ordered JTB Corp. to file a report and take preventive measures by June 24 after the major travel agency said it fears personal information on 7.93 million people has been leaked through unauthorized access to its server. The information ...
A meeting between Chinese and ASEAN ministers over the South China Sea has ended in confusion after Malaysia released and then retracted a joint statement that expressed "serious concerns" over developments in the disputed waterway. The disarray raises fresh questions about unity within the 10-member ...
The rapid spread of internet services has accelerated the shortage of information technology engineers, prompting IT companies to conduct in-house reforms to lower turnover and outsource orders to overseas firms. ISA Plan Inc., a contract systems developer, introduced a system in fiscal 2010 under which ...
Standing before about 140 high school students, Subaru Yamashita describes how he is physically and emotionally male and that he is attracted to men. "There is more than just male or female when it comes to a person's physical and mental genders, and what sex ...
A U.S. appeals court upheld the Obama administration's landmark rules barring internet service providers from obstructing or slowing down consumer access to web content on Tuesday, dealing a blow to big cable and mobile phone companies. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
An Indiana man was charged Tuesday with three felony weapons violations after authorities say they found three assault rifles and explosive chemicals in his car before a major Los Angeles gay pride parade. James Wesley Howell, 20, made his first appearance in Los Angeles County ...
A district court in Okinawa Prefecture dismissed on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by citizens of Ginowan, current host of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, against Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's decision to block the base's relocation within the prefecture. In the suit filed with the ...
The court decision to give former Japanese baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara a suspended term for possessing, using and purchasing illegal drugs was finalized as of midnight Tuesday after prosecutors and the defendant decided not to appeal. The Tokyo District Court on May 31 sentenced the ...
The weather agency lowered on Tuesday the volcanic alert level for a remote island in Kagoshima Prefecture following diminished volcanic activities. Citing a decreasing number of volcanic earthquakes, the Meteorological Agency lowered the alert level for Kuchinoerabu Island, about 1,000 km southwest of Tokyo, to ...
U.S. President Barack Obama's recent visit to Hiroshima provided a precious opportunity for the American public to think about the goal of creating a world free of nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. government official said Tuesday. Rose Gottemoeller, undersecretary of state for arms control and ...
North Korea may be significantly expanding its nuclear weapons production and could have added six or more weapons to its stockpile in the last 18 months, a U.S. research institute said on Tuesday. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) estimated last year ...
The Tokyo governor's resignation may be convenient for the ruling parties, but they still must get to work on closing the loophole in the Political Funds Control Law that led to the scandal.
By remaining in the contiguous zone, China showed either a de facto recognition of Japan's claims or that it was unwilling to risk a militarized response from Japan and the U.S.
With its self-declared caliphate, Islamic State has gained control of more resources and generated more income than al-Qaida.
More than 70 years after World War II, Japan should finally act like a normal country: defending itself, guarding its region, and ending its dependence on America.
Contentious law has been cited in two recent cases, including one over the mass surveillance of resident Muslims.
Five-month-old Volauvent was found in a temple where locals often shamelessly abandon their dogs.
From superheroes to presidential elections, 2016 seems to be a year of infighting and rivalries. It has even trickled down into Japanese rock, as Sugizo and Inoran, the two guitarists from renowned rock act Luna Sea, went toe to toe with their respective solo ...
"Syria Mon Amour," the Japan title of "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait," is a direct homage to Alan Resnais' 1959 classic antiwar movie "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and reflects a desire on the part of the two-person distribution team to put the film in a Japanese ...
The title of "Creepy," the new shocker by horror maestro Kiyoshi Kurosawa, sounds like an in-jokey self-parody. It's like titling a new Adam Sandler comedy "Goofy" (or if you're not feeling charitable, "Crappy"). But "Creepy," which premiered at this year's Berlin Film Festival, is ...
In the manner of Captain Renault in "Casablanca," I was shocked — shocked! — to find so much dialogue in a modern-day movie. But then "Irrational Man" is a Woody Allen venture and, apparently, Allen is unaware, or has chosen to ignore, that couples ...
The tele-screen received and transmitted simultaneously. ... There was of course no way of knowing when you were being watched. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual was guesswork. At any rate they could plug in to ...
The Islamic State's organized use of social media for global recruitment and propaganda took many by surprise, but their adversaries are now hitting back. Rojava, the Kurdish-led revolutionary zone in northern Syria, has been looking to rally Western support to its cause, and its ...
Shuichi Murata hit a two-out, walk-off single in the ninth inning as the Yomiuri Giants snapped their five-game skid with a 3-2 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Wednesday in interleague action. Yomiuri led in the third through a two-run shot from Itaru ...
Urawa Reds' faltering first-stage title hopes suffered another major blow with a 1-0 defeat away to bitter rivals Gamba Osaka in the J. League first division on Wednesday night. Takashi Usami did the damage with the only goal of the game on a breakaway early ...
World No. 6 Kei Nishikori withdrew from the Gerry Weber Open for the second straight season on Wednesday. Nishikori forfeited his second-round match against Germany's Florian Mayer due to an injury to his oblique muscles. During his first-round match against France's Lucas Pouille on Monday, ...
