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Okinawa on Thursday marked 71 years since the end of the battle with opposition to a new U.S. facility and calls to overhaul the SOFA agreement.
Teenage voters cast ballots as early voting began Thursday across Japan for the first national election since the minimum voting age was lowered to 18 from 20. Chiho Tatsumi, an 18-year-old high school student, is believed to be the first teenage voter to cast a ...
Japan's $1.3 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund is suing Toshiba Corp. for losses on its investments after an accounting scandal sent the conglomerate's shares plunging. GPIF is seeking damages of about ¥900 million, said Shinichirou Mori, a spokesman for the fund. The losses related to ...
Lifetime employment sounds like a great thing, but not if you hate where you work. That seems to be the plight of Japanese "salarymen" and "office ladies." Only 22 percent of Japanese workers have "a great deal of trust" in their employers, which is way ...
Goro Hasegawa, who invented the popular board game Othello, died Monday at his house in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, and a funeral was held Thursday. He was 83. As chairman of the Japan Othello Association, Hasegawa took part in the World Othello Championship 2006 held in ...
A passer-by made the discovery at around 10:35 a.m. in Meguro Ward's Himonya Park, police said.
An influential Chinese newspaper broke Beijing's Brexit silence on Thursday, saying the United Kingdom will lose global influence if it ditches the European Union. "If Britain votes to leave, it will become an Atlantic orphan and lose its special relationship with the EU," wrote the ...
The surprise departure of Nikesh Arora, heir apparent at SoftBank Group Corp., highlights a problem many Japanese companies face: passing the reins to a successor. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, 58, said Tuesday he wants to remain at the helm of the company he built from ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is preparing to resume minivehicle production, possibly on July 4, company sources said Thursday. It suspended assembly of the vehicles at its Mizushima plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, amid a scandal over falsified mileage figures in April. Of Mitsubishi's three assembly plants in ...
Indonesia's president visited the Natuna Islands aboard a warship Thursday, making a bold move to assert sovereignty over the area in the southern reaches of the South China Sea after Beijing stated an "overlapping claim" on nearby waters. President Joko "Jokowi" Jokowi's visit along with ...
The approval marks the first major Japanese electronics manufacturer to come under foreign ownership.
Justice has been a long time coming for Masanori Yamazaki, whose common-law wife was murdered by a drunk U.S. sailor in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, 10 years ago, in an unprovoked assault. Yamazaki, 68, is refusing a U.S. government offer to settle over the death of ...
A common sight at summer festivals is people crouched over pools trying in vain to catch goldfish with a paper scoop. If only they knew how to do it. "You need to level the poi (paper scoop) underwater and scoop the goldfish from the head," says ...
Phones or watches may be smart enough to detect sound, light, motion, touch, direction, acceleration and even the weather, but they can't smell. That's created a technology bottleneck that companies have spent more than a decade trying to fill. Most have failed. A powerful portable electronic ...
China will begin operating regular cruise ship visits to the disputed Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea before 2020, state media reported Wednesday — a move likely to exacerbate already frayed ties with other claimants to the waters. In a report citing a ...
When he realized he was not going to make it as a guitarist, Hiroaki Suga set out to find the origin of life, and ended up creating a new way to develop medicines. Many years spent fiddling with the building blocks of the universe — ...
The fur is flying on social media as Britons prepare to vote Thursday on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union. The hashtags #CatsAgainstBrexit and #CatsForBrexit flooded Twitter this week, as pro- and anti-independence citizens tweeted feline photos and messages imploring voters ...
The campaign to keep Britain in the European Union got a boost from two opinion polls published late on Wednesday, a few hours before voters begin to cast their votes in a historic EU membership referendum. The news pushed sterling to its highest level against ...
The U.N. Security Council is slated to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday afternoon over North Korea's latest missile launches following a request made by the United States and Japan, diplomats said. "Confronted with the threat of proliferation, we consider that weakness is not an ...
Prosecutors have sought the death penalty for a man charged with murdering a woman in 2011 and causing his girlfriend's death in 2009. Keiji Hayashi, 43, is facing a lay judge trial in the Nagoya District Court over the murder of restaurant worker Madoka Morioka, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe repeatedly emphasizes that economy is the foremost issue in the campaign for the July 10 Upper House election — urging voters to choose whether to endorse his bid to go on with Abenomics or return to what he calls "those ...
It was a major failure by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when Australia decided to buy its new submarines from France.
For generations, political leaders have attempted to shape their image. Today, it is U.S. President Barack Obama's turn to attempt to define his legacy.
Desperate Republican strategists are concocting wild schemes to preserve their congressional majorities, even though they would concede the presidential contest to Hillary Clinton.
'Superfoods' highlight summer menu This summer, the Conrad Tokyo offers guests a luxurious option for self-healing. The hotel features menus using "superfoods" such as cumin, turmeric, wolfberry, chia seed and coconut milk powder at all its restaurants and bars between July 1 and Aug. 31. The ...
Misuzu Corp., a trading company that deals mainly in watches, has recently starting selling six new brands — Union Horlogere, Jaermann & Stubi, Catorex, Rochas, Dici and Candy Time — in Japan, the company and watchmakers announced on June 10. Misuzu, which also operates cram ...
With July just around the corner, Japan is gearing up for another sultry summer. Since the sizzling-hot days only last until early September, people make the most of the season by getting outside — that includes going to film festivals, art and fashion events ...
Japan interim coach Mark Hammett limited the changes ahead of Saturday's second test against Scotland, making just two to the side that started last week's 26-13 defeat. Male Sa'u, who is returning from injury, was handed the No. 14 jersey (rather than his more favored ...
George Washington standout Yuta Watanabe, veteran star guard Yuta Tabuse and the Takeuchi twins (Joji and Kosuke) will lead the "Akatsuki Five" as Japan men's national team head coach Kenji Hasegawa on Thursday revealed his final roster for the final Olympic qualifier, which takes ...
After 13 years studying Japanese baseball as a hitter and outfielder, Alex Ramirez is taking a similar approach to his new job as the rookie manager of the Yokohama BayStars. The Venezuelan, the first foreign-born player with 2,000 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball, is judiciously ...
Back in January, Kyodo News asked a senior member of the Sunwolves' playing staff about what would constitute a successful season. "If we can pick up one win, that would be good," he said. That the team has — with three games remaining in the season ...
