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Group of Seven finance chiefs signed up to a pared-down pledge Saturday on global trade as the presence of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration of the world stage continued to redefine the established economic order. The G-7 nations, meeting in Bari, southern Italy, said in ...
The evacuation orders for most of the village of Iitate have been lifted. But where are the people?
In March, the internet news site Videonews.com posted a conversation between environmental journalist Tetsuji Ida and Waseda University researcher Yasuhiro Sanada, who writes about fisheries. During the talk, Sanada said that whaling is a "dead industry," and seemed to think that the ongoing controversy ...
Returning from their Golden Week holiday break, the weekly magazines have directed much of their attention to the Korean Peninsula, with a fusillade of commentary by politicians, former diplomats, journalists, academics and the ubiquitous commentators referred to as gunji hyoron-ka — usually translated as ...
Japan is leaning toward choosing the Aegis Ashore missile-defense system over another advanced system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), government and ruling party sources have said. Faced with North Korea's rapid missile and nuclear development, and its threats, Japan has been looking into ...
At a meeting in Italy to address inequality, Finance Minister Taro Aso and some of his G-7 peers try to engage the U.S. in a debate on free trade.
The idea of Japan joining the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is finding renewed enthusiasm within the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, sources have said. The idea has advocates within the Prime Minister's Office and the trade ministry, and is backed by Toshihiro Nikai, ...
The U.N. Committee against Torture calls on Japan and South Korea to revise the “comfort women” accord to ensure the former sex slaves get redress and reassurances.
A fire broke out at Seibuen amusement park in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, but no one was injured, the police said Saturday. The fire, which started at around 11:30 p.m. Friday, appeared to have burned around 1,000 sq. meters of the park, including areas near the ...
A senior North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the United States said Saturday that Pyongyang would have dialogue with the U.S. administration if conditions were right. "If conditions are met, we will hold dialogue (with Washington)," Choe Son Hui, head of its Foreign Ministry's ...
The rainy season appears to have started in Okinawa and Amami, the Meteorological Agency said Saturday. The start is four days later than average for Okinawa and two days later for Kagoshima Prefecture's Amami, but three days earlier than last year for both regions, according ...
Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday not to talk to the media, a highly unusual move that prompted fresh charges the president is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between Trump's election campaign and ...
China is conducting extensive espionage against Australia, Canberra's most senior defense official said on Friday in a rare public accusation against its largest trading partner. Chinese spying has been the subject of much speculation, but senior officials have largely steered clear of making public complaints. "It ...
A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain's health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday. Extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments ...
The stakes are high as the Japanese people consider Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's backward-looking vision for the future.
The need to protect coral reefs from bleaching and other problems has never been greater.
No one can stop the aging process, but there are many ways to minimize its negative effects.
As a boy in the 1980s, Yuri Suzuki fell under the spell of video games and his father's record collection. The family home was in bustling Shibuya Ward, near the border with Shinjuku, and the influence of global cultures within its walls was strong. Both parents were in publishing — his mother editor in chief of Soen, the seminal fashion magazine — and their tastes broad. Imports ranged from the classics to the avant-garde, with a tilt toward American popular culture. So young Yuri took indirect life lessons watching videotapes of "Saturday Night Live" as well as "MTV." His touchstones included both U.S. TV personality Mister Rogers and Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder. You could say he didn't fit in at school. ...
When Hiroe Tanaka's father died, he left behind something that would change her life: a recipe for fried meat on a stick. It was an act of love. His daughter adored the Japanese street food known as kushikatsu, and he'd spent endless hours working ...
Canadian native living in Kyushu recalls his experiences of extreme sports in Japan.
As much as I love eating out in restaurants that run the gamut from high class to low, from holes in the wall, to all-you-can-eat, my heart — or is it my stomach — sings most when I'm in a good, solid izakaya (Japanese ...
Pizza's time has truly arrived. There are plenty of places where the pizza is more like a first cousin of that fried batter staple, okonomiyaki, meaning smothered in mayonnaise — but the true Neapolitan masterpiece also has a following here. If you're in Kyoto, ...
On a cool afternoon in mid-April, Israeli chefs Yair Yosefi and Omer Ben-Gal, co-founders of Brut Wine Bar in Tel Aviv, examine a shipment of fresh silver-skinned sawara (Spanish mackerel) from Tottori Prefecture in a tiny kitchen on Cat Street — in the middle ...
At long last, the winter has thawed out and the warmer months have arrived in Japan. Accordingly, the convenience store shelves are filled with mint-flavored products, ranging from an assortment of chocolates infused with the herb to one of the most celebrated desserts around, ...
"Those two women are waving at each other while standing about a meter apart."
On May 15, Japan will mark the 45th anniversary of the return of Okinawa. For 27 years prior, the U.S. administered the islands, a continuous period of occupation that began after the Battle of Okinawa in June 1945. This makes the new translation of ...
Those with an interest in feudal Japan are urged not to miss Eiji Yoshikawa's samurai epic, "Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era" — just don't expect historical accuracy. In telling the story of Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1685), the famed swordsman and author of ...
Bachelor executive Shinsuke Sakuma is an egotistic narcissist with a callous attitude toward females, preferring one-night stands to serious relationships. The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping, by Keigo Higashino, Translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash.240 pages VERTICAL, Nonfiction. At his PR company, Cyberplan, he thrives ...
Actress Melissa McCarthy took her impersonation of White House press secretary Sean Spicer to the streets of New York City on Friday, rolling through midtown traffic on a motorized lectern in an apparent shoot for "Saturday Night Live." McCarthy is due to host the television ...
The arena was all yellow and extremely loud. For the Tochigi Brex, the energy created by their loyal fans gave them a big boost in an 80-73 win over the Chiba Jets in their B. League playoff opener at a jam-packed Brex Arena Utsunomiya on ...
The top-seeded Kawasaki Brave Thunders shot a sizzling 53 percent from the field in the first game of the B. League Championship quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon. The hosts rode that dominant offensive performance to an 89-75 victory over the eighth-seeded Sunrockers Shibuya in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa ...
Japan captured the 2017 Asia Rugby Championship on Saturday when it finished its campaign unbeaten following a 16-0 win over Hong Kong. On a wet day at the Hong Kong Football Club, the Brave Blossoms won their 25th title out of a possible 30 and ...
Brandon Laird became the 20th player to go deep in four consecutive at-bats in Nippon Professional Baseball on Saturday as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines 11-6. A day after hitting two two-run homers before drawing two walks in Nippon Ham's ...
