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Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba overtook scandal-hit Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the best person to lead Japan, an opinion poll showed Tuesday. Ishiba was seen as the most appropriate choice for prime minister by 20.4 percent of respondents to the poll conducted by the ...
North Korea vowed Tuesday to strike the U.S. with a "powerful nuclear hammer" after CIA chief Mike Pompeo hinted last week that Washington was open to the possibility of regime change. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), quoting a Foreign Ministry spokesman, issued a ...
A 9-year-old boy died from heatstroke after being left alone in his mother's car for about 90 minutes on a sweltering day in the city of Nara, prefectural government officials said Tuesday. The boy was found unconscious on Monday afternoon in the locked car in ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's struggles continued Tuesday at a special Diet session held to probe the Kake Gakuen scandal, as opposition lawmakers pointed out contradictions in his past remarks on when he learned about the school operator's plan to apply for a special government ...
Democratic Party heavyweight Yoshihiko Noda announced Tuesday he will step down from the main opposition party's No. 2 post to take responsibility for its crushing defeat in Tokyo's election earlier this month. Noda's resignation as the party's secretary-general represents the centerpiece of a leadership shake-up ...
Tuesday was eel-eating day, when many in Japan treat themselves to the grilled delicacy —this year likely to make a smaller dent on the wallet with prices down. Eel, typically prepared with sweet soy sauce and grilled, is enjoyed on set days following an old ...
With latest confirmed sighting in Kyushu, venomous species has spread to Tokyo and six prefectures as officials weigh control measures
A Hitachi Ltd. subsidiary plans to offer rooftop solar power solutions, exclusively targeting more than 400 India-based Japanese firms amid growing corporate use of the sun's energy in the South Asian country, according to company officials. Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., which teamed up with India's leading ...
Calling act ‘malicious and well-planned,’ prosecutors at the Saitama District Court say Kabu Terauchi acted out of a desire to observe how his victim behaved in captivity
Toyota Motor Corp., off to a slow start selling its car of the future on one U.S. coast, is struggling even to get started on the other. Hang-ups getting enough hydrogen-fueling stations opened in California have undercut early sales of the fuel cell vehicle named ...
Government approves national guideline seeking to bring down rate, which despite recent declines, ranks high globally
Uber Technologies Inc. is at risk of losing out on another big chunk of the global market. Grab, the leading provider of ride-hailing services in Southeast Asia, said Monday it raised $2 billion from SoftBank Group Corp. and China's Didi Chuxing and expects to receive ...
Disaster-hit Fukuoka Prefecture on Tuesday turned its attention to reconstruction after the Self-Defense Forces called off the search for survivors on Monday. In the most severely hit city of Asakura, about 400 prefectural police officers and firefighters used excavators to dig up dirt and debris ...
To shore up his ailing administration, Shinzo Abe is vowing to focus on the economy. But instead of unleashing yet more stimulus, analysts say the prime minister needs to take a hammer to an old chestnut: moribund wage growth. Facilitating salary increases would boost household ...
The government hopes to decide around September on a method for extracting fuel debris from reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex based on findings from a recent robot inspection, industry minister Hiroshige Seko said Tuesday. "Valuable information has been obtained from the ...
A woman in western Japan died from a tick-borne disease last year after being bitten by a stray cat, the health ministry said. The case is believed to be the world's first human infection of the illness without a direct bite from a tick. The ...
This year marks the 130th anniversary of the start of construction of Taiwan's first railway, back when the island was part of China's Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Among the commemorative events, Taiwanese officials earlier this year celebrated two Japanese colonial-era train stations: the main station in ...
A push is underway to create smaller, community-integrated group homes for people with disabilities in the wake of last year's mass murder at a large, outdated care facility. Around 130,000 people with disabilities are currently accommodated in some 2,600 large facilities built in relatively isolated ...
Alphabet Inc. reported a 21 percent jump in quarterly revenue Monday, maintaining a growth rate that is rarely seen among companies its size and suggesting the big sales gains enjoyed recently by the other internet firms are not done yet. Alphabet, the owner of Google ...
Frustration is mounting among leading foreign policy officials in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration as they chafe at some policy and bureaucratic defeats and complain they lack independence to do their jobs, officials say. The clash between internationalists urging the traditional U.S. leadership role in ...
Aiming to mitigate passenger congestion due to a surge in tourists, the city of Kyoto has proposed a price hike for a one-day pass for public and private bus services. The proposal, which was made at a meeting of experts on Monday, looks to increase ...
Voters are ready for a viable alternative to the LDP, but the leading opposition party is failing to deliver.
The distrust and the ensuing competition between Asia's two largest nations — both armed with nuclear weapons — must be contained.
Abe's choice is clear: Show Kuroda the door, or open his Cabinet to new thinking by a man who's seen considerable action in the economic trenches.
The U.S. president's approval ratings are dismal, but he remains popular with his base and Republican leaders don't see him as a liability yet.
When you're an independent rock band, maintaining a do-it-yourself ethic long-term can be difficult. Many acts eventually have to scale back, and dreams of a musical career turn into the reality of having a really cool hobby. Uhnellys, however, have kept up the fight. "I ...
Hybridity and eclecticism may be key concepts in much contemporary art, yet they are not new phenomena. In the Taisho Era (1912-1926), Tetsugoro Yorozu virtually personified the idea of hybrid art: As Japan rushed toward modernization, he not only experimented with the very latest ...
Jason Standridge threw seven innings and four relievers completed a six-hit shutout as the Chiba Lotte Marines blanked the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4-0 in the Pacific League on Tuesday afternoon. Standridge (2-4) scattered five singles and two walks while striking out three against the ...
Star guards Yuki Togashi, Makoto Hiejima and Daiki Tanaka headline the Japan men's national team's 12-man roster for the upcoming FIBA Asia Cup, the Japan Basketball Association announced on Tuesday. Most of the squad that competed at June's East Asia Championship in Nagano, where the ...
Boxer Akira Yaegashi has started training with an eye to fight again, the former IBF light flyweight champion said Tuesday. "I am building my body up once again," said Yaegashi, 34, at his Ohashi Boxing Gym in Yokohama. "I know that (my gym) will arrange ...
Japan suffered its first defeat of the FIBA Women's Asia Cup on Tuesday, losing a tight battle to Australia 83-74 and in the process missing a chance to finish atop Group B. After a competitive first half in Bangalore, India, the Australians locked in to ...
