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The Okinawa Prefectural Government filed a fresh lawsuit against the central government Monday, seeking a halt in work at the relocation site for the U.S. Futenma air base. It was the latest shot in Okinawa's long-running fight against the plan to relocate the functions currently ...
Hoping to generate an Olympic buzz at home and overseas, Tokyo's 2020 organizers kicked off the countdown to the games on Monday — exactly three years before the opening ceremony — by releasing the lyrics for a promotional theme song and summer dance. But the ...
It’s Monday morning. You roll out of bed, grab a coffee, sit on the couch and you’re already at work. Sound good? Well, that’s how the government wants you to work.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears before the Lower House Budget Committee.
Torrential rain over the weekend has left at least 485 houses flooded in Akita Prefecture and more than 20,000 residents under evacuation orders.
Michiko Inukai, an author and philanthropist who worked to help refugees and people facing starvation, died Monday at 96, according to people close to her. She was a granddaughter of former Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai, who was killed in an attempted coup in 1932 that ...
As part of the government's drive to relocate some of its Tokyo-centric functions to other cities to promote regional revitalization, the Consumer Affairs Agency inaugurated a new office in Tokushima Prefecture on Monday. The office, set up in the Tokushima Prefectural Government building, will deal ...
A 1,000-km citizens' relay from Aomori Prefecture to Tokyo kicked off Monday as part of several events marking the three-year countdown to the 2020 Olympics. In the 15-day event, about 1,800 runners and cyclists including Olympic medalists will run through the area devastated by the ...
The land of Abenomics is betting on "Modinomics." The demand is so strong that assets of Nomura Holdings Inc.'s India equity fund quadrupled to almost ¥400 billion ($3.6 billion) in just the past year. Japanese investors owned $13 billion of Indian stocks and bonds at the ...
The way the government tells it, Japan is in dire need of veterinarians. In a speech in Kobe last month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly announced his intention to spearhead an effort to create new veterinary departments in universities across the nation. The announcement may have ...
Tokyo resident Yusuke Terada, who has trouble walking due to cerebral palsy, recently launched a project called Helpush, where he travels throughout Japan with the assistance of strangers who help push his wheelchair. More than 200 people have helped him out since he started the ...
Sharp Corp. said Monday it is returning to the U.S. market with a new high-end LCD television brand, as the firm is unable to use its Aquos label in the region after selling the distribution rights. The new brand will be a step above Aquos ...
Plans are afoot to hold Sports Day in July instead of October in 2020 to ease traffic congestion on the first day of the Olympics, sources with knowledge of the plan said. The national holiday falls on the second Monday of October. Changing the date ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will open new radiation monitoring posts Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture and Yonaguni Island in Okinawa to broaden its ability to detect power plant accidents overseas, sources say. The new outposts will be closer to South Korea and Taiwan, respectively, which ...
The surge of foreign visitors to Japan in the first half of this year, which hit a record 13.76 million, is attributable mainly to a rise in South Korean tourists, particularly those arriving on low-cost carriers. "More young (South Korean) people are enjoying brief personal ...
Beijing police are hunting for a man suspected of stabbing five people and then plowing into a group of nine others with a van, killing one and injuring eight, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The attack took place mid-afternoon Sunday in the suburban district ...
Israel said on Sunday it would not remove metal detectors whose installation outside a major Jerusalem mosque has triggered the bloodiest clashes with the Palestinians in years, but could eventually reduce their use. Fueling fears of an escalation, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would ...
Australia's consumer watchdog said on Monday it was investigating the recall of Takata Corp. vehicle air bags, a day after police said a man's death in a Sydney car crash could be linked to the faulty safety equipment. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ...
Two months after Islamist militants launched an assault on one of the biggest southern cities in the Philippines, the fighting is dragging on, and President Rodrigo Duterte says he is prepared to wait for a year for it to end. The defense top brass admits ...
Venezuela's opposition party Union Democratica is calling for a 48-hour general strike in Caracas Wednesday and Thursday, in a continuation of protests over President Nicolas Maduro's plan to elect a new constituent assembly next weekend and rewrite the country's constitution. Deputy Simon Calzadilla, speaking for ...
The Sino-Indian crisis has underscored the centrality of propaganda in China's foreign policy.
Even if North Korean priorities are misplaced, the rest of the world should do what it can to ease the suffering of a public that is battered by the indifference of its leaders and the vicissitudes of nature?
Britain faces a bumpy ride in the wake of Prime Minister Theresa May's failed election gambit.
In China it is politics, or the perception of such, that is the surest route to getting stamped "banned by Beijing."
Let's take a look at the origins of half a dozen Japanese words that have found wide usage in English.
How do you say, "We managed to sell most of our stock" in Japanese?
Upcoming changes to Japanese university admissions have students, parents and teachers raising their hands to ask questions.
Yokozuna Hakuho, who captured a record 39th career title at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament, said Monday the reality of having won the championship and made multiple record-breaking feats along the way has finally sunk in. Speaking at the traditional day-after press conference following his ...
Over the past weekend in Japan, the only thing hotter than the weather, was the play of a trio of foreign NPB stars. None may have been hotter than Japhet Amador. The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger caught fire for the Pacific League leaders over ...
Toshiya Saito and Takahiro Shikine won silver and bronze, respectively, in the men's individual foil at the World Fencing Championships on Sunday. While Russia's Dmitry Zherebchenko claimed the gold, the 2-3 finish of the up-and-coming Japanese talents came as a pleasant surprise for a nation ...
Kaede Maegawa and Anju Furuya each earned silver, while the men's 4x100-meter relay team captured bronze for Japan on the final day of action at the World Para Athletics Championships on Sunday. In the women's long jump T42 category for single above-knee amputees, Maegawa recorded ...
