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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike pledged on Thursday to field as many women as possible in the metropolitan assembly election in July, saying women are woefully underrepresented in the Japanese political arena. "It's a shame ... Female participation in politics is very small," Koike told the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent push to engineer Japan's first revision to the pacifist Constitution continued to cause ripples in the political community on Thursday, with even senior members of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party raising questions. "I don't think the Constitution can be revised ...
The government paid ¥882 million ($7.73 million) in aid to 390 crime victims and their kin in fiscal 2016, down ¥109 million from the previous year, the National Police Agency said Thursday. It paid an average ¥4.86 million to the family members of 129 victims ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and new South Korean President Moon Jae-in get acquainted in a forward-looking phone chat grounded by reminders about history and the “comfort women.”
From a baby expected to be born in October in Osaka Prefecture to one in Tokyo with a due date in July, information of upcoming childbirths is listed on a website run by an Osaka-based nonprofit adoption agency urging prospective parents-to-be to register online. Named ...
Nissan Motor Co. announced Thursday that it forecasts a 19 percent profit drop for the current business year through March 2018, echoing gloomy forecasts given earlier by two other Japanese auto giants — Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Nissan said it estimates a ...
A wildfire near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has finally been extinguished after a 12-day battle waged by firefighters and Self-Defense Force troops in special protective gear left 75 hectares of tainted forest scorched, and local officials scrambling to quash radiation rumors. The wildfire, ...
Gov. Yuriko Koike pushes Tokyo’s Olympic preparations forward by agreeing to foot the cost of building temporary facilities outside the capital, but not everyone is happy.
Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of French carmaker Renault SA, sees the embrace of globalization by France's president-elect Emmanuel Macron as a harbinger of faster growth for the country's economy. He also signaled that Macron's policies could pave the way for a deeper alliance ...
Shinto elders at the centuries-old Unesco World Heritage Site of Shimogamo Shrine upset neighbors when they bulldozed a swath of old Kyoto forest to build an apartment complex with units selling for more than $2 million apiece. "They should call it the Shimogamo Corporation," says ...
As Okinawa continues to mark record high numbers of tourists in recent years, the prefecture is struggling to dispose of snowballing garbage and supplying sufficient amounts of water. According to data released by the prefectural office in April, tourist numbers in Okinawa hit a record ...
Japan posts its largest current account surplus in nearly a decade for 2016 as exports thrived on falling oil prices and tourism surged.
In a first, the labor ministry publishes the names of 334 “black companies” warned about excessive overtime or other violations online, including Dentsu, Panasonic and Japan Post.
North Korea must still overcome "important shortfalls" in developing a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile before it can field a weapon capable of hitting the U.S., according to the Pentagon's intelligence agency. Kim Jong Un's regime "continues efforts to expand its stockpile of weapons-grade fissile materials," ...
As many as 450,000 civilians are trapped in Mosul's Old City, caught up in house-to-house fighting between Islamic State and Iraqi government forces and cut off from aid, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. The Iraqi army says it is ...
A motorcycle attack on a yakuza-filled van in Chiba Prefecture has left one man injured and bleeding from the head, police said. The shooting took place Wednesday evening at an intersection on National Route 6 in Matsudo, and close to a police station, investigative sources ...
The recent theft of more than ¥85 million in cash from a safe at a police station in the city of Hiroshima was likely an inside job, investigators said Wednesday. The police are looking at the possibility of an inside job as the safe could ...
The U.S. military on Wednesday conducted a nighttime parachuting drill at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa's main island for the second time in just over two weeks despite local opposition and a request from the Japanese defense bureau to suspend it. According to the defense ...
A village leader from Borneo urged Japan on Wednesday to stop building its Olympic stadium with cheap timber that he says is obliterating traditional life for his indigenous people. Bilong Oyoi, whose Penan people live in Borneo's Malaysian rain forests, handed a petition of 140,000 ...
Japan's central government debt stood at a record ¥1.072 quadrillion at the end of fiscal 2016, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. The amount owed per person came to approximately ¥8.45 million, based on Japan's estimated population of 126.79 million as of April 1. The central government's ...
Europe, Japan and Canada hope a G7 meeting in Italy this week will give them a better picture of U.S. President Donald Trump's direction on key policies that he has yet to spell out. The official agenda for Group of Seven finance ministers and central ...
Libya's coast guard intercepted about 300 migrants packed onto a wooden boat and returned them to Tripoli on Wednesday after warning off a ship that was preparing to pick them up for passage to Europe. Footage filmed by Sea-Watch, a nongovernmental organization, showed a Libyan ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has many questions to answer before setting a timetable in his quest to amend the Constitution.
Amending the pacifist Constitution might be in Japan's national interest, but Abe will require plenty of skill if he is to extract himself and the country from the political quagmire of constitutional revision.
A modestly improved majority in next month's general election would be enough for Prime Minister Theresa May to steamroller her version of Brexit and her domestic reforms through parliament.
The ANA InterContinental Tokyo's second-floor Cascade Cafe is offering its first Peruvian buffet dinner through June 30. Supported by the Peruvian embassy, the buffet offers authentic and traditional Peruvian dishes chosen from a rotating menu of 20 dishes, ranging from the iconic Peruvian ceviche (marinated ...
In 1985, women in gorilla masks gathered at New York's Museum of Modern Art to protest its lack of female artists. Known as the Guerrilla Girls, the group continues to raise awareness about inequality in the art world. Thirty years later, their spirit has ...
At 37, director Shuntaro Fujita says he's just hitting his prime. "Many people say they liked being in their teens the best, but now my springtime has arrived. Mentally, I'm at the peak of my enthusiasm," he tells The Japan Times at a rehearsal studio ...
Tetsuto Yamada went 4-for-4 with two RBIs and Yuhei Takai hit a pair of two-run doubles to power the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to a 12-3 victory over the Hiroshima Carp. After Hiroshima slugger Brad Eldred belted a solo homer in the top of the fourth ...
Nippon Professional Baseball officially kicked off the countdown to this year's All-Star series during a news conference on Thursday at a Tokyo Hotel. The My Navi All-Star Game 2017 will be held on July 14 and 15, with Game 1 scheduled to take place at ...
New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen hinted Wednesday that the All Blacks could play a match in Japan before they defend their title here at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. "Over the next two years, we've got a lot of time to prepare and get ...
England coach Eddie Jones laughed off suggestions that his team has been drawn in a 2019 Rugby World Cup "Group of Death" after being paired with France and Argentina in Pool C on Wednesday. "Who's calling it a group of death? No one's going to ...
Longevity is just one aspect of J.R. Sakuragi's successful basketball career. In exclusive interviews with The Japan Times, former UCLA and St. John's head coach Steve Lavin, and ex-UCLA and ex-NBA star Marques Johnson reflected on the unique personality and skill set that have defined ...
