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A mother of two has died, likely due to a ruptured air bag made by Takata Corp., after the Honda City she was driving was involved in a minor accident in Malaysia on Sunday, authorities said. Mohamed Sabri Shamsudeen, head of the fire department in ...
Former Air Self-Defense Force chief Toshio Tamogami tells the Tokyo District Court he's innocent.
Cases of heatstroke are likely to jump as temperatures surge this summer amid Japan's first La Nina phenomenon in six years, according to the Meteorological Agency. La Nina, a natural cooling of parts of the Pacific that alters global weather and generally brings hot days ...
The president of the biggest opposition party on Monday dared Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to face him in a televised debate over the next two weeks leading up to the Upper House election, calling his refusal to do so unheard-of in recent years. Democratic Party ...
A second arrest warrant is served on a 17-year-old boy over the theft of some 210,000 digital files containing the grades of students in Saga Prefecture schools.
To leave, or not to leave: That is the question. Still. After Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union, there is no indication that a so-called Brexit will happen soon. It maybe never will. Prime Minister David Cameron, who is resigning, has said he will ...
The Fukuoka High Court upholds a lower court's decision to allow the use of fuel containing plutonium in a currently idled reactor.
A strong victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in next month's Upper House election would spell an end to postwar pacifism and "completely change the way Japan is," according to Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada. "I have an extremely strong sense of ...
In delaying its IPO by two years, Japanese messaging app company Line Corp. bought time to correct weak financial reporting controls, work on its business plan, bolster staffing — and left billions of dollars on the table as its valuation shriveled. Line's initial public offering ...
As the nation's population rapidly grays, ensuring there are enough nursing care workers to meet growing demand has become a pressing issue. In 2025, 1 in 5 people will be aged over 75, and 1 in 5 seniors aged over 65 will have dementia, according ...
Lotte Holdings Co. shareholders voted to leave Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin in his post of director of the holding company, Lotte Group said in a statement, rejecting a third bid by his brother to seize control of the family-run South Korean conglomerate amid ...
China needs to "narrow its differences" with Western countries where corrupt officials have fled and seek their support, the country's top graft watchdog said, as Beijing seeks to address worries about rule of law and transparency in corruption probes. China has sought to boost international ...
Fujita Health University in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, is partnering with Toyota Motor Corp. to open a Robotic Smart Home — a base for nursing robots at the Toyoake apartment complex — next spring. As the nation approaches a "superaging" society when the baby boomer generation ...
In the wake of Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Japan to ensure the stability of financial markets.
President Park Geun-hye on Monday ordered officials to take "all necessary measures" — including round-the-clock monitoring — to minimize market fallout after Britain's decision to exit the European Union, Yonhap news agency reported. The U.K. vote Thursday wiped trillions of dollars off world stock markets ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida asked British Ambassador to Japan Tim Hitchens on Monday to help ensure a stable business environment for Japanese companies in Britain in the wake of the country's historic vote to leave the European Union. "I would like your country to thoroughly ...
At their root, the forces behind Brexit are fears of loss — of autonomy and opportunity.
The Brexit vote is a cautionary tale to other countries and their elites about complacency toward populist movements and the casual acceptance of the downsides of globalization as just "another cost of doing business."
Congress's failure to act over the last 12 years has transformed the U.S. into a nation awash in military hardware.
It is estimated that approximately half of the 19.5 million registered refugees at the global level are children.
It's not news that Japan is running out of children. Though the country's total fertility rate has recently shown some slight signs of recovery, this is unlikely to halt the overall trend of 少子化 (shōshika), which is the common term used to describe the ...
Today, we will introduce XからこそY and XてこそY, two patterns that are used with the particle こそ. ...
The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum during the last weekend of May, following a historic visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, more than doubled from a year earlier to 13,389, the museum said May 30.
Hideaki Wakui went the distance and Yamaico Navarro drove in four runs as the second-place Chiba Lotte Marines defeated the Pacific League-leading Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 9-6 on Monday evening. Wakui (7-3) didn't allow the Hawks much until the seventh inning, when he was sitting on ...
Yuki Yanagita led all players in the fan balloting for this year's Central and Pacific league All-Star Games, Nippon Professional Baseball announced Monday. Yanagita, the center fielder for the two-time defending Japan Series champion Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, pulled in 521,685 votes to lead all players ...
One of the joys for Yomiuri Giants fans who packed the stands at Korakuen Stadium during the final years of the ballpark, before the team moved into the shiny new dome being built next door, was to see Warren Cromartie hit a home run ...
Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho will be looking to become only the third wrestler in sumo history to post 1,000 career wins when the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament gets under way next month. Hakuho, who retained his east yokozuna slot on Monday when the Japan Sumo Association ...
