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A detachment of four U.S. E/A-18G Growler aircraft and about 120 personnel have arrived in the Philippines to help train that country's forces — and patrol its airspace and seas — amid Manila's territorial dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea, the U.S. ...
A man missing since 1997 and thought possibly abducted by North Korea has been found within Japan, police have confirmed. Kazuya Miyauchi, 51, who went missing at the age of 32 in Fukui Prefecture, was found in early June, the Fukui police said Thursday, adding ...
The report said someone in the government was unhappy Tepco had revealed a photo of the blown-up building for reactor No. 1 a day after 3/11.
A massive data breach at Japan's largest travel agency has underscored the risks companies face when they keep sensitive data on networks connected to the internet, experts say. Some warn government systems are especially vulnerable to state-sponsored attack, including by China and North Korea. JTB ...
A group of Filipinos of Japanese descent are defying old age and rejection in their fight to obtain citizenship. Their Japanese fathers died, went home or otherwise disappeared before or during World War II, and the claimants often have only vague memories of them. Pacita ...
Amid a proliferation of development deals in Sri Lanka, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says his country and Japan could work on more projects together, including hospitals and highways. "I believe that the infrastructure projects are very important for Sri Lanka after the war," Rajapaksa said ...
A magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit the northern city of Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Thursday, registering a lower 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warnings have been issued. The quake struck off Uchiura Bay in southwestern Hokkaido at a depth ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga instructed government ministries Thursday to include "effective and bold" measures to lure more foreign tourists in their budget requests for fiscal 2017. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has set a target of 40 million foreign visitors in 2020, when Tokyo ...
Japan's real estate investment trusts have soared in value to become the priciest in the world. More purchases by one of the biggest investors in the landlord business — the Bank of Japan — may help propel prices even higher. Buying by the BOJ has ...
Former leprosy patients urged the state on Thursday to step up efforts to restore their honor and that of deceased sufferers as they attended a government-sponsored ceremony remembering those subjected to years of discrimination in Japan. From the Supreme Court, Secretary-General Yukihiko Imasaki attended the ...
Nippon Paper Industries Co. said Thursday it has agreed to purchase the world's third largest liquids packaging board business from U.S. timber company Weyerhaeuser Co. for $285 million. The U.S. business, which produces and sells paper containers for soft drinks and milk, will be transferred ...
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday even as sluggish global growth and anemic inflation put policymakers under pressure to do more to reflate the economy out of stagnation. The BOJ's decision bolstered the yen and battered Tokyo stocks. While the central ...
The statutory minimum penalty for rape should be raised to imprisonment of five years from three, putting it on a par with punishment for robbery.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said about 4.62 million people had dementia in 2012 and it expects the figure to rise to 7 million by 2025.
India's space agency will launch a record 22 satellites on a single rocket as it tries to ease a global backlog and demonstrate the ability to compete with commercial spaceflight companies run by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Satellites from the United States, India, ...
Policymakers are in frequent contact with their European counterparts on how to soothe markets if Britain votes to leave the European Union, with the first line of defense aimed at preventing a shortage of dollar liquidity. The Bank of Japan is ready to offer dollar ...
Airbnb Inc. has gone on a charm offensive in Japan, hoping to drum up support as regulators debate whether to clamp down on the startup's rapidly expanding operations. The world's third-most valuable private startup dispatched high-powered lawyer and political strategist Chris Lehane to lay out ...
Regardless of behavior and performance, a governor's retirement allowance is determined solely by their monthly salary and the number of months served in office.
An increasing number of elderly people are living in poverty.
Drinking by high-ranking U.S. officers and events where alcohol is featured work at cross-purposes to the military's message of temperance.
Islamic State is not an all-powerful octopus of a global terror organization, but it has a talented marketing team.
The messaging app's $1 billion IPO is a credit to its innovation but that's no guarantee of success beyond Japan.
The atmosphere at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, must have been electric on Feb. 4, 1877. That was the day Austrian composer Ludwig Minkus premiered "La Bayadere" — the latest masterpiece of classical ballet by French choreographer Marius Petipa — ...
Summer Sonic on Thursday unveiled nine new domestic acts and a solo artist from China for its upcoming 2016 edition, including indie trio Cero and singer-songwriter Kazumi Nikaido, who is performing with the Gentle Forest Jazz Band. Chinese solo artist Leah Dou has also been ...
Hayato Sakamoto brought the Yomiuri Giants from behind for the third time on Thursday night with a two-run, eighth-inning homer in a 10-7 interleague win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Trailing by a run in the bottom of eighth before 44,925 at Tokyo Dome, ...
On the day Ichiro amassed a career total of 4,527 hits in top-flight pro baseball, Alex Rodriguez called his one-time teammate a legend and "as unique a player" as he'd ever been around. Speaking in Denver, where the New York Yankees were preparing to play ...
During a May segment on the ESPN program 'Pardon the Interruption,' hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, former Washington Post sportswriters, were asked to choose if Jackie Bradley Jr.'s 27-game hitting streak or the suddenly blazing form of 42-year-old Ichiro Suzuki, who at the ...
A small mountain town in Iwate Prefecture is proud of its reputation as a town that has produced several Olympic hockey players. Field hockey has long been part of life in the town of Iwate — which shares the name of the prefecture — ever ...
