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A slow-moving but weakening Typhoon Noru, at one point the strongest storm in the world this year, approached Japan's main islands on Sunday, leaving two people dead and prompting evacuation advisories to be issued for hundreds of thousands of people. The typhoon may make landfall ...
As he made his international debut in Manila on Sunday, newly appointed Foreign Minister Taro Kono agreed with his regional counterparts to put more pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile ambitions. After arriving in the Philippine capital, Kono, who assumed his ...
Hiroshima on Sunday marked the 72nd anniversary of its atomic bombing by the U.S., with Mayor Kazumi Matsui using the annual memorial ceremony to call on the central government to help make a treaty banning nuclear weapons a reality. This year's ceremony at Peace Memorial ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he has “no plan” to grant the Self-Defense Forces permission to develop the ability to strike overseas targets.
Washington is asked to halt Osprey flights in Japan after an MV-22 taking part in exercises crashed into the ocean off Australia’s east coast.
In China, the plush international hotel lobby has been one of the few places to find gaps in the "Great Firewall," a sophisticated system that denies online users access to blocked content such as foreign news portals and social media platforms like Facebook and ...
The gist of Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui's Peace Declaration on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing: The "hell" seen in Hiroshima after the atomic bombing could occur again at any time as long as nuclear weapons continue to exist. Nuclear weapons are useless for national ...
Lawyers poring over the activity logs that led to the defense minister's exit suspect that redactions point to illegal activities.
A paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who died of leukemia a decade after the attack, was donated Saturday to a former training site for U.S. bombing crews during World War II. Yuji Sasaki, 47, Sadako's ...
German police on Saturday arrested two Chinese tourists for making illegal "heil Hitler" salutes in front of the historic Reichstag building that houses the German parliament. Berlin police officers say they detained the two men, aged 36 and 49, after they were seen striking the ...
China has sacked and will prosecute a senior official in its violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang after a probe found he wasn't doing enough to tackle extremism in one of the most sensitive parts of the country and had taken bribes. Anti-graft watchdog the ...
South American trade bloc Mercosur suspended Venezuela indefinitely on Saturday, adding to international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to dismantle a newly created pro-government constituent assembly and restore democracy. Foreign ministers of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil announced the decision in Sao Paulo, urging Maduro ...
The government's proposed scheme to exempt certain employees from legal work-hour regulations needs to be scrutinized from the viewpoint of protecting workers' interests from labor abuse.
A new strategy is required that recognizes a political resolution to the Syrian war is highly unlikely and focuses instead on freezing the conflict to bring relief to civilians.
After years of resisting wage hikes, Japanese companies are starting to recognize the need to lock in staff before they literally disappear.
Why make life complicated, when the simplest of designs can be even more effective?
As everyone knows, Japan has an unmanageable surplus of vacant housing. According to the latest government surveys there are more than 8 million unoccupied houses and apartment units in Japan and that number will increase to the point where one in four or five ...
Career saves leader Hitoki Iwase stepped into the record books on Sunday when he closed out the Chunichi Dragons' 5-4 come-from-behind win over the Yomiuri Giants. Pitching in his 950th career game, the lefty surpassed the Nippon Professional Baseball record held by former Hankyu Braves ...
