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A development plan for the proposed Bangsamoro region in the Philippines' southern island of Mindanao has been completed despite a setback in the government's peace process with the country's largest Muslim rebel group, the Japan International Cooperation Agency said Wednesday. JICA's Philippine office said the ...
Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s domestic vehicle sales more than halved in May from a year earlier after the automaker was hit by a fuel economy manipulation scandal, data showed Wednesday. Meanwhile, Nissan Motor Co. also suffered a double-digit drop. Mitsubishi marked a 51.4 percent year-on-year fall to ...
Economists criticize Abenomics even as its eponymous champion uses it to draw focus away from his push for constitutional revision.
In a rare move that analysts say could ease soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing, five warships from China's navy have taken part in training exercises with U.S. vessels while en route from the western Pacific to Hawaii for the biennial Rim of the ...
The number of elderly people is on the uptick, even as the size of the average family shrinks, government numbers indicate.
From robotics to deep learning and image recognition, a glimpse of science fiction-like technologies developed by the nation's artificial intelligence industry is on display at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward. At the three-day AI World exhibition, a total of 15 companies exhibited cutting-edge AI ...
The LDP veteran bucks her party, throwing her hat into the ring for the gubernatorial election slated for next month.
A music score handwritten by Johann Sebastian Bach and owned by a Japanese music college will be put up for sale next month at Christie's auction house in London. It is expected to fetch as much as $3 million. Ueno Gakuen in Tokyo's Taito Ward, ...
An groundbreaking ceremony was held in Seoul on Wednesday at the place where a "Site of Remembrance" for former "comfort women" forced to provide sex for Japanese soldiers in wartime brothels is to be built. The memorial site will be built at the former residence ...
A senior government official on Wednesday flatly denied allegations written on a news website claiming that a Chinese fighter was close to firing on an Air Self-Defense Force jet that had been scrambled over the East China Sea. Koichi Hagiuda, deputy chief Cabinet secretary and ...
Immigration authorities ask the offices of five nations to promote voluntary repatriation of their overstaying nationals.
Two people are in comas following heavy rain in Kyushu on Tuesday and Wednesday, which triggered landslides in Kagoshima and Nagasaki prefectures. According to the Meteorological Agency, 61.5 mm of rain per hour was reported in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Wednesday morning, following 263 mm ...
A Syrian man claiming to be the mediator negotiating the release of abducted Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda has decided to end his involvement in the case, saying the government has not responded to the captors' demands. In a statement released on another Syrian's Facebook account ...
Sony Corp. expects the profitability of its games division to rise this fiscal year as the company prepares to launch a virtual reality headset to complement the PlayStation and streaming services. The company is targeting an operating profit margin of 8 to 10 percent for ...
The United States has decided to remove Thailand from its list of worst human trafficking offenders, officials said, a move that could help smooth relations with Bangkok's military-run government. The upgrade, confirmed by a U.S. official in Washington and a Bangkok-based official from an international ...
Following a series of incidents in the Natuna waters involving Chinese fishing boats and coast guard vessels, Indonesia plans to upgrade its military base in the Natuna Islands on the edge of the South China Sea, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday. Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu ...
A baby lies in a metal-bar cot drinking from a bottle perched on his pillow in a Tokyo orphanage. There's no one to hold and feed him or offer words of comfort. The director of the institution, nurses scurrying busily around him, says he would ...
Two things catch the eye in the office of Joselito Esquivel, a police colonel enforcing a national crackdown on drugs in the Philippines' most crime-ridden district: a pair of boxing gloves in a display cabinet and an M4 assault rifle lying beside him. "It's all-out ...
A woman whose son is serving with the Self-Defense Forces is a tireless campaigner against recently enacted security legislation, and she is no less vocal now that an Upper House election is approaching. The resident of the Hokkaido city of Chitose is in her 50s ...
A company employee who adopted a female name due to gender identity disorder has filed a damages suit against a subsidiary of beverage maker Yakult Honsha Co., claiming she was forced to come out and suffered depression. The employee in her 40s is seeking ¥3.3 ...
Swedish furniture retailer IKEA Group is recalling almost 36 million chests and dressers in the United States and Canada that have been linked to the deaths of six children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday. The furnishings can topple over if they ...
North Korea's extended-range Scud missiles are capable of reaching the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, a Seoul daily reported Tuesday. "We previously assumed the Scud-ER, a modified version of the Scud-C, could fly about 700 km. But our joint assessment with U.S. intelligence ...
Lawmakers need to get to work on closing the gaping loopholes in the system controlling political funds.
If voters do not wish to give the Abe administration a carte blanche to revise the Constitution, they must express their intention in this election.
With the election of Tsai Ing-wen, a return to an earlier era of confrontation between Taiwan and China is possible.
After Brexit, Europe could finally emerge as a strong international actor, but sadly the political will to achieve such an outcome is unlikely to emerge.
Setting aside time for solitude can be a healthy habit, and doing it in a spiritual atmosphere can be even healthier. Many office workers in Tokyo's Kamiyacho area, a business district between Roppongi and Toranomon, have benefited from the quiet space in Komyoji Temple that ...
For some long-term residents, how they are referred to in Japanese is a bone of contention.
A couple of readers' responses to recent Community Page articles.
Two years after the opening of the pervertedly female-empowering "Gone Girl" (based on Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel), I'm one of the people who still get chills when remembering Rosamund Pike's monologue. "Gone Girl" officially put Flynn's name on the map in more ways than ...
Movies about female friendship are no longer rare: In the 25 years since the seminal "Thelma and Louise," even the Japanese film industry has figured out that two or more women bonding on screen can be good for the box office. But what about ...
Nothing is sacred anymore, but there really should be limits — even for Disney. "Alice Through the Looking Glass" is the sequel to Tim Burton's somewhat disastrous "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), which is where they really should have drawn the line. I regret to ...
From the NFL's deflated footballs to the bribery allegations besmirching Tokyo's Olympic bid, it can feel like the entire apparatus of professional sport has become hopelessly corrupt. But are the fans also complicit? In a memorable scene during "The Program," a zippy account of the ...
The documentary "While We Kiss the Sky" (Japanese title "Kofuku wa Hibi no Naka Ni") opens nationwide this weekend, and it proffers a lot of hope and optimism for the future of Japanese society. Directed by German filmmaker Werner Penzel ("Step Across the Border") and ...
Hiroki Kuroda held the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to a run in seven innings and also hit a three-run double as the Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp won 8-1 on Wednesday, claiming their 11th straight game for the first time since 1984. Former big leaguer Kuroda (6-3) ...
Japan thrashed South Africa 4-1 in its Rio Olympic send-off led by a first-half brace by Shoya Nakajima on Wednesday. South Africa's Gift Motupa opened the scoring with a penalty midway through the first half, but Japan hit back with three goals, two of them ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima's Japan striker Takuma Asano has received an offer from Premier League giant Arsenal, sources told Kyodo News on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Asano, who on Friday is widely expected to be named to Makoto Teguramori's Under-23 squad for the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympics, ...
Keijuro Matsui isn't quite like the rest of the 12 players on the Japan men's national team for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade. While his teammates are starters for their respective clubs, that is not the case for Matsui. The 30-year-old shooting guard comes ...
