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The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Monday approved an additional 20 years of operation for two aging reactors on the Sea of Japan coast that will become the first such units to be rebooted under new rules introduced after the Fukushima disaster. The atomic regulator green-lighted ...
Foreign workers with labor gripes have nowhere to turn to in 20 prefectures where bilingual government advisory services are nonexistent, it is learned.
In one college major at Seoul’s elite Korea University, the courses are known only by number, and students keep their identities a secret from outsiders. The Cyber Defense curriculum, funded by the Defense Ministry, trains young keyboard warriors who get a free education in exchange ...
Japan is falling short of its economic targets and needs to reload the "three arrows" of "Abenomics" to support higher wages and labor-market reforms, the International Monetary Fund said in a report published Monday. "Under current policies, the high nominal growth goal, the inflation target, ...
Indonesia's vice president on Monday voiced concerns over U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments on Muslims, saying "discrimination according to religion" could prompt retaliatory policies from other countries. Jusuf Kalla said the government was "not happy with Trump's opinions" — the first critical remarks from ...
With the July 10 Upper House election just around the corner, politics is once again in the air as Diet members head back to their local constituencies to campaign and promote their party platforms. In the process, they have to deal with local views on ...
Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest automaker, warned a withdrawal by Britain from the European Union may lead to levies of as much as 10 percent on the cars it builds in the U.K. Brexit would challenge Toyota to cut costs or make its cars ...
A pact governing the legal status and conduct of U.S. military and nonmilitary personnel in Japan is back under the spotlight following last month's arrest of an American civilian base worker in Okinawa Prefecture suspected of raping and killing a local Japanese woman. Fueled by ...
Finally, a financial flare-up that the world's central banks will have seen coming. On Friday morning London time — when the results of a U.K. referendum will show whether the nation has or has not chosen to leave the European Union — the Bank of ...
Philippine police killed 11 suspected drug dealers during operations at the weekend, police said on Monday, adding to a surge of drugs-related killings since Rodrigo Duterte swept an election last month on promises to wipe out crime. Duterte's single-issue campaign of tackling illegal drugs and ...
The researcher hired by Toyota Motor Corp. to spearhead its robotics and artificial intelligence efforts says the automaker's production principles can be applied to build affordable helper robots for rapidly aging societies. Robot makers are struggling with the same scale challenges that the auto industry ...
Netflix Inc. intends to produce more original Japanese television shows after the series it introduced earlier this month beat the company's expectations by drawing viewers from Brazil to Germany and the U.S. The 10-episode "Hibana" production is showing that Japanese content can draw global audiences, ...
With little fanfare, scandal-felled Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe visited his office Monday in what is expected to be his final appearance at City Hall after announcing his resignation last week. Masuzoe was expected to wrap up some final paper work at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ...
Japan posted a goods trade deficit of ¥40.7 billion in May for the first red ink in four months, the government said Monday, with the balance weighed down by sluggish exports amid a slowdown in overseas economies. The value of exports dropped 11.3 percent from ...
A record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as they reach borders, the United Nations refugee agency said Monday. The figure, which jumped from 59.5 million in 2014 and by ...
The number of people looking to repair old wind-up clocks is on the rise nationwide. The reasons vary — some want to hear once again the sound of a clock handed down by relatives, while others want to again sport the swanky wristwatches they splurged ...
A transgender woman who was allegedly forced to divulge her gender dysphoria at work plans to sue an affiliate of beverage maker Yakult Honsha over the ordeal.
The humanities and social sciences are vital to analyzing the complexities of economics, a fact the education ministry would be well-served to remember.
While we must not excuse individuals from vile actions, we cannot at the same time ignore the environment in which these acts take place.
The advantages of the single market will probably be enough to hold the EU together, especially if the members have a horrible example of Britain as a warning.
We cannot decry the consequence of our actions if we foster a culture of violence in the United States.
Applying repetition to speaking practice will help you sound more natural and bring phrases to your tongue more easily.
Introducing two adverbs, たまに and たまたま, that sound similar but have rather different meanings. ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that Japan will accept 150 Syrians over five years, treating them not as refugees but university students.
Google, All Nippon Airways and Toyota have emerged as the ideal workplaces for Japanese millennial talent, according to a survey.
Lefty Suguru Iwazaki threw seven scoreless innings and Fumihito Haraguchi broke up a scoreless pitchers' duel with an eighth-inning home run as the Hanshin Tigers wrapped up this year's interleague action with a 2-0 win over the Orix Buffaloes on Monday. In a makeup of ...
Japan forward Takashi Usami will join Augsburg on a four-year deal from Gamba Osaka subject to a medical later this month, the German side announced Monday. Usami, set to hold a press conference on Tuesday, has scored five goals in 16 league games this term ...
After losing their previous two games against the Chunichi Dragons, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters needed a win Sunday to ensure they would finish their interleague slate with at least a .500 record. They won 3-2, largely because Shohei Otani rode to the rescue, ...
Toyota suffered one of the most heartbreaking losses in 24 Hours of Le Mans history on Sunday, when, with three minutes to drive to an almost certain win, the No. 5 car of Kazuki Nakajima, Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi failed, allowing the No. ...
