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A knife-wielding man stabbed four women at a shopping mall in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Tuesday, leaving one of them dead and the other three injured, police said. The suspect, Nobuyuki Matsuhashi, 33, was arrested at the scene. He reportedly told officers he had a mental ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will take the blame if the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito ruling bloc fails to win more than a majority in the Upper House election.
The head of Tokyo Electric apologizes over his predecessor's order to not use the term "core meltdown" in the early days of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
The death of a 3-year-old girl caught up in a traffic accident in Osaka in February appears to have been caused by the vehicle's air bag, police said Tuesday. The girl died from a chest injury after her 30-year-old mother crashed their minivehicle into a ...
The transport ministry gives Mitsubishi Motors the go-ahead to keep making four minicars tainted by its fuel-efficiency scandal that get 11 percent worse mileage than advertised.
A controversy has broken out on social media after the name of a high-profile youth activist appeared last week on the list of artists attending this year's Fuji Rock Festival. The unexpected name: Aki Okuda, a leader of the Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy-s, ...
Neither the Constitution nor the contentious security laws enacted last year should become key issues in the Upper House election, said Natsuo Yamaguchi, president of Komeito, the junior partner in the ruling coalition. "A nationwide debate over the issue of constitutional revision is so immature ...
Hong Kong's leader said on Tuesday he had asked China whether its handling of the booksellers case violated the "one country, two systems" formula under which the city returned to Chinese rule, the strongest response yet from the former British colony. Chief Executive C.Y. Leung ...
Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. have set their sights on global expansion. They are about to face a global response. Mayors from New York to Paris and Seoul think they have found the trick to coping with so-called "sharing economy" apps — working together. ...
The Self-Defense Forces go on alert for a potential ballistic missile launch by North Korean, revving up their Patriot interceptor batteries just in case.
European history may be about to go into reverse. If Britain votes to leave the European Union, it will likely start a process of fragmentation of the political and security structures on which the post-World War II and post-Cold War European order was built. Even if ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday the government will not rush to weaken the yen, although sharp swings in the currency markets are "undesirable." "Regarding currency intervention, we will not do it so easily," Aso told a news conference. He added, any action the government takes ...
With centuries of tradition on their side, Japan's hordes of naked bathers remain unmoved by the island nation's bid to tap a rich reserve of power equivalent to about 20 nuclear reactors. The resource-poor country, which last year spent ¥18.2 trillion importing fossil fuels, has ...
Minutes from the Bank of Japan's April policy meeting showed some members expressed misgivings over its negative interest rate policy. "A few members argued that the negative interest rate policy would impair the functioning of financial markets and financial intermediation as well as stability of ...
The ratio of Japanese stocks held by foreign investors at the end of fiscal 2015 was down 1.9 percentage points from a year earlier at 29.8 percent, data showed Monday. It was the first decline in four years. The figure reflects the departure of nonresidents ...
The Islamic State group has gathered information on 77 U.S. and NATO air force facilities around the globe and is urging its supporters to attack them, according to South Korea's intelligence agency. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a statement Sunday that the terrorist ...
Nissan said it would take legal action against the official campaign for Britain to leave the European Union after the group used the Japanese carmaker's logo in leaflets calling for voters to back Brexit on June 23. On one "Vote Leave" flyer, the firm's logo ...
Some companies are bringing retirees back into the office to pass on know-how gained through decades on the job. Such workers can offer valuable insights and placement agencies are increasingly accommodating them as Japan faces a looming labor shortage. Sakae Kajita, 67, retired two years ago ...
A small restaurant in the city of Obihiro, Hokkaido, boasts an eye-catching sign out front that says "Eat here for free." It's not that the restaurant pays for the meal. The other customers do. Inspired by an Italian movement known as "suspended coffee," which offers pre-paid ...
Trousers with leather pockets worn by Adolf Hitler and a brass container that held the cyanide used by a top deputy to commit suicide were among a trove of Nazi memorabilia sold for hundreds of thousands of euros at an auction in Germany. The sale ...
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights on Monday that the government will avoid using the term "Rohingya" to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country's northwest, an official said on Monday. Also on Monday, the top ...
The University of Tokyo, locally known as Todai, lost its crown in this year's Times Higher Education Asia University rankings released Monday. After occupying the number one spot for the past three years, the University of Tokyo came seventh in a list of Asia's top ...
China has told other Asian countries that it may leave the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea as a countermeasure if a ruling from an international tribunal expected in the coming weeks over territorial rows in the South China Sea runs counter ...
The decision to ban the Russian track and field team from the Olympics was correct. Now it's up to Russia to prove beyond all doubt that it understands the stakes and will adjust its behavior accordingly.
A widespread growing sense of anger and concern among Japanese voters will be a key factor determining the outcome of the upcoming Upper House election.
The BOJ's Haruhiko Kuroda can offer the Fed's Janet Yellen a lesson: When cutting rates to zero, you need a clear exit plan.
A technology called albedo modification, which boosts the reflectivity of the Earth's atmosphere, holds tremendous potential to cure climate change.
Fumio Sasaki's one-room Tokyo apartment is so stark friends liken it to an interrogation room. He owns three shirts, four pairs of trousers, four pairs of socks and a meager scattering of various other items. Money isn't the issue. The 36-year-old editor has made a ...
Pop singer Kaela Kimura's "Butterfly" has topped Oricon's top 10 list of the most popular wedding songs of 2016. The Tokyo native's 2009 smash hit beat singer-songwriter Masaharu Fukuyama's "Kazoku ni Narou Yo" ("Let's Become a Family") and Superfly's "Ai wo Komete Hanataba wo" ("Flowers ...
Almost a year after "887" premiered in Toronto in July 2015, and following five-star reviews at every stop on a multinational tour that took in the world's biggest annual theater event, the Edinburgh International Festival, the latest play by Robert Lepage — the Canadian ...
Embrace the summer heat with a rousing musical journey across the arid deserts of the Book of Genesis, as Theatre Orb in Tokyo presents a revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," the first publicly performed musical by those masters of the genre, ...
Fifty-three year-old Oriza Hirata unexpectedly arrived early for our 9 a.m. interview in a Tokyo family restaurant one recent Sunday morning. Not only that, but the famed playwright and director turned up alone without the squad of minders such people's managers generally send along ...
Fullback Ayumu Goromaru's goal with Toulon will be putting points on the board with his boot he said Tuesday, when he was unveiled by the French rugby giant. "When this offer arrived, I had no reason to turn it down," said the 30-year-old who ...
Well, as Ron Harper famously told the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, "Don't mean a thing without the ring." That was the last season rallying cry/plea when the Bulls were clearly on the way toward a then record breaking 72-win season. Coach Phil Jackson had tried to ...
Gamba Osaka forward Takashi Usami said Tuesday he is returning to the Bundesliga this summer with an agenda. The 24-year-old spent two seasons, from the age of 19, in Germany but returned to Japan in 2013 with precious little to show for his efforts. At ...
