| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « May | Jul » | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |||
Voters in Japan, including 18- and 19-year-olds who are newly eligible to cast a ballot, have expressed their hopes and fears over the July 10 Upper House election as campaigning kicked off this week. Jinshiro Motoyama, a 24-year-old student at International Christian University in Tokyo, ...
Senior Japanese and Russian officials agreed Wednesday to continue talks on a post-World War II peace treaty, with the two countries yet to formally end hostilities due to a territorial dispute over Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido. The next round of talks will be held ...
The CEO’s remarks come a day after the announced resignation of group President Nikesh Arora, whom Son had chosen as successor.
Two new test-fires confirm the North’s progress in developing its intermediate-range Musudan missile, says the Defense Ministry.
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. forecast its first loss in eight years after setting aside compensation costs related to manipulating fuel-efficiency ratings and falsifying test data. Net loss in the year ending March 31 will probably be ¥145 billion ($1.4 billion), the company said in a statement ...
As the campaign for the July 10 Upper House election kicked off Wednesday, the major parties unveiled their platforms to win over voters. The ruling coalition regards the House of Councilors election as a key test of its economic policies, keeping mention of its more ...
The death was announced Wednesday of veteran lawmaker and former internal affairs minister Kunio Hatoyama. He was 67. The younger brother of former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama hailed from a family studded with politicians. Hatoyama died of duodenal ulceration, according to media reports. In the last ...
The July 31 election of a new Tokyo governor threatens a much-loved fixture in the city's calendar: the annual Sumida River Fireworks Festival. Yoichi Masuzoe left office Tuesday in an expenses scandal, and city residents will now have to pick a successor. The fireworks are planned ...
Political parties kick off their official House of Councilors election campaigns around the country with speeches on the economy.
Superhero Ultraman was spotted around JR Meguro Station in Tokyo last week and again on Tuesday. Awed eyewitnesses spoke in hushed tones as Ultraman, or a fan dressed as him, entered the station and then turned around and left after station staff asked him to ...
Delicious food, beautiful landscapes and hot springs are some of the highlights for visitors to Tohoku, a region still recovering from the disasters of 2011. Tohoku's attractions have drawn people from across Japan but so far have largely failed to lure foreign tourists, even though ...
The poll could pave the way for Abe to revise the U.S.-drafted Constitution nationalists see as a humiliating remnant of WWII.
Aung San Suu Kyi leaves democratically led Myanmar this week for military-ruled Thailand on an official visit that highlights the changing fortunes of the Southeast Asian neighbors. Myanmar, now governed by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy after elections last year, is emerging from a ...
In her chic Beijing studio, 26-year-old Summer Liu relaxes on a sofa, admiring the pink vase she keeps full of fresh flowers. In the eastern city of Jining, Hu Jiying, 81, sits on an old bed that's scattered with clothes, towels and half a ...
A university professor is heading the Japanese version of a U.S.-led movement to exonerate people who have been wrongfully charged and imprisoned using DNA testing. Mitsuyuki Inaba, 51, who is neither a lawyer nor an expert in criminal law, is a professor at Ritsumeikan University's ...
The proportion of Japanese men in their 20s who want to marry has slumped, with many citing their income not meeting women's expectations as a reason not to tie the knot, think tank research showed. With a dip in the rate for women as well ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe keeps trumpeting his economic policies. It's time for voters to give him their report card.
It is time for the Western powers to reconsider their regional strategies and focus attention on attacking the ideology driving terror.
Disagreements and the internal strife in the Eastern Orthodox churches are making the goal of contemporary relevance all but unattainable.
Lam Wing-kee, is a name that should go down in history, both for Hong Kong and China.
Family registry system can seem schizophrenic but its authority keeps citizens out of the courts.
People out and about in Tokyo offer their thoughts on the "Brexit" referendum being held in the U.K.
Naomi Kawase has always been an outlier in the Japanese film world, if a very successful one. Born and raised in Nara Prefecture, the site of Japan's ancient capital, she started making documentaries while a student at the Osaka School of Photography in the ...
Would anyone in Hollywood now green-light a film with a quirky middle-aged heroine whose passion is making and detonating bombs? Especially one with no apologies for her explosive past, human collateral included? I can imagine the tremors at the pitch meeting when someone says ...
Will Bruce Willis ever make it back to the fold of respected Hollywood action stars? Judging from his antics in his latest outing, "Extraction," the short answer to that is a huge "No." The long answer involves a private eulogy to an illustrious action ...
In 2003, a Hokkaido cop named Yoshiaki Inaba was sentenced to nine years in jail, on charges including drug use and possession with intent to supply. During his trial, the former police inspector revealed that his impressive career record had involved an unhealthy degree ...
The "politically correct"(PC) left is often no better than the Christian right when it comes to looking for ways to be offended by movies. The latest victim of PC backlash is "Nina," the film based on legendary jazz and blues singer and civil-rights icon ...
What were the particular challenges of reworking "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"? From the very start it was decided we would not be using a children's choir. Often times the show is told to young children on stage, and that device becomes the ...
Japan defender Tomoaki Makino scored twice as Urawa Reds stopped the rot by coming from two goals down to beat FC Tokyo 3-2 at home in a rescheduled J. League first-division game on Wednesday night. Reds saw their fading first-stage title hopes end with a ...
Up-and-coming sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown's hopes of appearing at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August are all but over, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations said Wednesday. A left thigh injury has forced the 17-year-old to withdraw from the national championships — a ...
On a mildly humid, but pleasant, sunny June Saturday, many people flocked to the large area near the Maruko bridge, which crosses the Tama River in Shin Maruko, in Kawasaki's Nakahara Ward, to enjoy an early-summer weekend. There were little boys playing baseball on the ...
The season of career minor leaguer Ryuma Kidokoro took another surprising turn on Wednesday, when the 30-year-old was named Nippon Professional Baseball's interleague MVP. The Hawks' journeyman, who since 2005 has spent the bulk of his time on the first team as a pinch runner ...
