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In recent weeks there have been two well-reported robberies of people carrying large amounts of cash on the street. Thieves got away with ¥384 million after attacking a merchant in a Fukuoka parking lot. In Tokyo's Ginza district, a mugger managed to take ¥40 ...
Hokkaido's potato farmers haven't recovered from last summer's typhoons, which means consumers will have to wait until at least fall before the usual range of potato chip products returns to store shelves. The farm ministry expects the chip shortage to last until the island prefecture's ...
Intestinal infections caused by a parasitic worm present in improperly handled fish are climbing sharply in Japan, the health ministry warns.
The Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau is beset by a hunger strike launched by detainees who are demanding that Japan’s allegedly harsh immigration policies be revised.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s subtle strategy for marketing constitutional revision like a 2020 image commercial leaves his party’s veterans feeling irritated and undermined.
Moritomo Gakuen will now lose its nursery school license because it can't secure enough qualified child care specialists to staff its Osaka city-based nursery school, Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said Friday. "After an order to suspend operations is issued, the city will move forward with ...
Airline and travel-industry groups are quietly expressing concern about a plan under consideration by U.S. security authorities to prohibit passengers from carrying their laptop computers into the cabin on flights from Europe. Extending electronics restrictions — now in place for travel from some Middle Eastern ...
A veteran member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will attend an international economic forum opening Sunday in Beijing, and plans to deliver a letter from Abe to Chinese President Xi Jinping. LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai, a pro-China lawmaker, will take part ...
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada on Friday expressed displeasure with a recent U.S. parachuting drill at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa and said it might have flouted a bilateral accord. Inada said U.S. parachute drop training should be "basically" conducted at an airfield on nearby Ie ...
Like any good love affair, it has had its ups and downs. Having sold French sovereign debt for the fifth month in a row in March, Japanese investors may start to rekindle their interest, according to fund managers interviewed by Bloomberg including Nissay Asset Management ...
A man received 30 months in prison Thursday for causing the death of a woman in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, last August while playing "Pokemon Go" as he was driving. The Nagoya District Court ruled that 27-year-old Yusuke Okuyama from Toki in neighboring Gifu Prefecture was ...
A 1-year-old girl became the youngest lung transplant recipient in Japan on Thursday after being given the organs from a brain-dead boy, according to a hospital in Okayama Prefecture that performed the surgery. The girl suffers from pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the ...
Nikon said Thursday it recorded a group net loss of ¥7.11 billion ($62 million) in the fiscal year that ended in March, citing restructuring costs for pulling the company into the red for the first time in seven years. The loss represents a reversal from ...
SoftBank Group may propose to T-Mobile US that the American mobile carrier enter merger talks with SoftBank's U.S. subsidiary Sprint, sources said Thursday. This comes after an earlier bid to buy T-Mobile US and merge it with Sprint — a move SoftBank abandoned in 2014 ...
Tracing the path of their mother, who escaped the Holocaust with help from some defiant Japanese, New Yorkers Deborah and Shelley Reed experienced myriad emotions on their first visit to Japan during the peak cherry blossom season last month. It was around the same time ...
The families start lining up every day near the well in Mosul's Karaj al-Shamal neighborhood, filling their large plastic containers with sulfurous, nearly undrinkable water. As the battle to clear out Islamic State drags on around them, the residents of the wrecked city in northern ...
Toshiba is considering extending the deadline for the second round of bidding for its chip business, as its partner Western Digital continues to object to the sale, sources said Thursday. Toshiba initially planned to close the bidding on May 19 but is now considering extending ...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will not travel to Nagasaki in August to attend a peace conference there, officials of the organizer said Thursday. Mayors for Peace, a Hiroshima-based nongovernmental organization, had invited the former president to attend the forum but received an email from ...
Lebanese Hezbollah said on Thursday that any future conflict between the Shiite group and Israel could take place inside Israeli territory, as tensions rise between the arch foes. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, also said in a speech televised live that the group was dismantling ...
A six-member television crew from Japan was deported from the easternmost Indonesian province of Papua on Thursday for immigration violations, a local immigration official said. Yopie Watimena, chief of the immigration office in the provincial capital of Jayapura, said that one of the six Japanese ...
Loathed by the public, Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn is seeking to win over his subjects not by reverence, but fear.
U.S. policy on Asia seems adrift under the Trump administration.
The health ministry's efforts to tighten regulations on indoor smoking in public spaces are being undermined by the LDP.
Hirohiko Sunami's hands emerge from his indigo vat covered in rivulets of fermenting natural dye. The light is dim in this Kojima workshop, but a few stray sunbeams reflect off the millions of bubbles at the vat's surface as Sunami pulls a piece of ...
Synthesizers, drum machines and Vocoder-filtered vocals in the style of pop star Chisato Moritaka — this was 1980s Japan, and it's the sound of Satellite Young. However, singer Emi Kusano points out that most of the Tokyo band's songs are about life in the internet ...
Masahiro Nakatani, Kosuke Fukudome and Takashi Toritani all hit solo homers to pace the Hanshin Tigers to a 4-1 victory over the Yokohama BayStars on Friday. Hanshin starter Randy Messenger (5-0), held the BayStars to one run on nine hits and a walk and struck ...
Kei Nishikori withdrew from the Madrid Open on Friday after feeling pain in his right wrist during prematch practice. The world No. 8, who returned to competition this week after sitting out a month and a half due to an injury to the wrist, ...
Diante Garrett's dazzling basketball skills, contagious confidence and veteran leadership have provided a big boost for the title-chasing Alvark Tokyo this season. And it's quite clear his positive relationship with his father remains a stabilizing force in his life. Former NBA guard Dick Garrett, an NBA ...
The gamble had to pay off for Jose Mourinho and it did, or rather it has so far. The Manchester United manager had prioritized the Europa League over a top-four finish in the Premier League, and for someone who has made pragmatism an art ...
Japan was not drawn in the 2019 Rugby World Cup pool phase with England, the team coached by its former boss Eddie Jones. The earliest they could meet at the tournament would be in the semifinals, provided both teams get that far. But it is ...
Yokozuna Kisenosato will be looking to shake off recent injury concerns and win his third straight title at the upcoming Summer Grand Sumo Tournament as the head-to-heads for the event's first two days were announced Friday. Should he make a similarly risk-free performance as at ...
Nick Fazekas is a big fella, and it certainly gives him an advantage playing basketball. But that alone doesn't make the 31-year-old one of the B. League's exceptional players. His phenomenal shooting skills set him apart from others in the men's top hoop circuit in ...
World No. 8 Kei Nishikori defeated Spanish veteran David Ferrer 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday to advance to the men's singles quarterfinals of the Madrid Open for the fifth straight year. In a third-round match that was interrupted by rain after the first game of the ...
