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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto have affirmed that they will work together on their respective diplomatic relations with Russia. "We affirmed our close coordination in our relationships with Russia ... an important neighbor for both of our nations," Abe said at ...
Japan and the Philippines have signed a ¥264 million grant agreement to help Filipino government workers study at Japanese universities. Under the deal, scholarships will be provided to 20 Philippine government employees for post-graduate studies in institutions such as Meiji University, Kobe University and Nagoya ...
The Bank of Japan on Monday raised its assessment for five of the country's nine regional economies amid strong exports to Asia. The BOJ used the word "expansion" to describe six of the regional economies, the most since it began releasing the Sakura Report, named ...
A former top education ministry bureaucrat says again that top officials in the government must have manipulated key decision-making processes to help out a school run by a close confidant of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Six days after torrential rain hit the Kyushu region, about 180 people are still cut off in Fukuoka and Oita prefectures and around 1,700 remain in evacuation centers.
It's finally here: the Model 3, Tesla's $35,000 (¥4 million) electric game-changer. A single black Model 3 rolled off the production line last Friday with a serial number all its own, kicking off a company-defining six months. The car will belong to Elon Musk, ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Monday kicked off a campaign to encourage residents to replace their incandescent lightbulbs with energy-efficient LED lighting for free. Later the same day, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike held a launch ceremony at City Hall with comedian Pikotaro to explain the ...
Nara Mayor Gen Nakagawa, 41, was declared the winner of Sunday's mayoral election by just 2,000 votes Monday morning, a narrow difference that election officials say was caused by voter confusion. But Nakagawa and his chief rival Makoto Yamashita, 49, who both ran without party ...
Japan's current account surplus fell 5.9 percent from a year earlier to ¥1.65 trillion ($14.5 billion) in May, logging the first decrease in four months as higher crude oil prices pushed up imports, government data showed Monday. The country posted a current account surplus for ...
Core private-sector machinery orders defied expectations and fell in May, the second consecutive month of decline, due to weakness in the service sector, the government said Monday. As a result, the government downgrading its assessment of the key gauge for companies' future capital spending. The orders, ...
Nearly a year ago, a disturbed man in Kanagawa Prefecture committed mass murder at a care facility for people with intellectual disabilities. Some regard the incident as an illustration of attitudes toward people with disabilities: part deep-rooted indifference, part discrimination and part aversion. And ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will reshuffle his Cabinet and key Liberal Democratic Party posts in early August.
One of the alligator gars caught in the vast moat of Nagoya Castle last year has been turned into a specimen for display at Hekinan Seaside Aquarium in Aichi Prefecture, giving visitors the chance to fully observe the long carnivorous fish indigenous to North ...
Major tech firms have been keen to sell speakers equipped with voice-based artificial intelligence agents recently. The debuts of smart speakers are seen as the prelude to an AI era, ushering in a new technological age in which virtual assistants are expected to become as ...
From 700 sailors spelling out "Hello Hong Kong" on the deck to youthful soldiers singing about iPads and smartphones, China's People's Liberation Army used the first port call in Hong Kong by its aircraft carrier to turn on the charm. The PLA opted for a ...
A government push to make France more "finance-friendly" is raising Paris' chances of attracting Brexit-fleeing banks from London although it is raising its game at a late stage in the process, a group of senior financial industry executives said. Eager to keep Frankfurt from getting ...
Turkey's main opposition leader told a huge protest rally on Sunday that the country was living under dictatorship and pledged to keep challenging the crackdown launched by the authorities after last year's failed military coup. Addressing hundreds of thousands of people waving Turkish flags and ...
The Japanese government's stance on the U.N. nuclear ban treaty is a deeply flawed misreading of international sentiment and a deep betrayal of Japan's own history, legacy and people.
Disdain for multilateralism continues to be a core component of the Trump presidency.
The U.S. president's foreign policy is extraordinary: a voluntary surrender of power and influence.
It's in the interest of both the EU and U.K. that terms acceptable to both parties should be agreed smoothly and quickly.
When emails first hit Japan in the mid-1990s, these were counted in 通 (tsū), the common classifier for letters. However ...
How do you say, "It's been three years since we last met, hasn't it?" in Japanese?
Venomous fire ants, native to South America, have been found, including a queen ant.
Xavier Batista's fourth pinch-hit homer of the season overturned a one-run deficit as the Hiroshima Carp beat the Yokohama BayStars 5-1 on Monday night. Before 31,910 at Mazda Stadium, the Carp and BayStars opened their final series before this week's All-Star break. In a tight pitchers' ...
Takayasu earned his first win as ozeki on the second day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament, overpowering third-ranked maegshira Ikioi on Monday. A night after stumbling against Hokutofuji (1-1) to start the 15-day meet, Takayasu left nothing to chance against Ikioi, whom he had ...
Tokyo Yakult Swallows fans can be forgiven for being frustrated, even angry, at the way the season has played out thus far. The team is mired in last place and began this week six games out of even fifth place. That's to say nothing of ...
Former Sanfrecce Hiroshima midfielder Jan Jonsson has been appointed the club's new manager, the J. League first-division side said Monday. The 57-year-old Swede arrived in Hiroshima in 1993 initially as an assistant coach, but wound up playing six games and scoring once for the team ...
