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Entrepreneur Nobu Okada has set off on a mission never before undertaken in the annals of human history — cleaning up Earth's space junk. Man-made space debris comprises everything from defunct satellites to abandoned launch vehicles and even tiny flecks of paint. This floating junk ...
The infrastructure ministry plans to revise the law promoting the development of barrier-free environments to ensure the creation of facilities and areas easily accessible to elderly and disabled people.
The real world has begun to intrude upon the presidency of Donald Trump. The violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white nationalists and counterprotesters confronted Trump with perhaps the first true domestic crisis of his young administration. And to some, even within his own Republican ...
After months of attacking Venezuela's unpopular President Nicolas Maduro, Latin America came out strongly against U.S. threats of military action against the crisis-hit nation. U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise comments on Friday may bring the beleaguered Maduro some respite in the region, just as Venezuela ...
Apparently with North Korea and China in mind, Japan and the United States are expected to agree in security talks to strengthen their defenses against cyberattacks.
Despite the falsehoods that some politicians peddle, facts still matter.
A series of scandals has exposed the inadequacies of a guideline that governs the management of official documents by government ministries and agencies.
The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign policy objectives with bluff, bluster and bullying.
After very successful runs in Rome and London, "The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945," an exhibition of maquettes, photographs, plans and drawings, is now in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. For providing an extensive look at varied and eclectic forms that ...
Ever since the release of Marie Kondo's 2011 bible on the Japanese art of decluttering, much of the developed world has been somewhat fixated on tidying up. Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" has been so influential over the past six years or so ...
Shinnosuke Abe, a key member on seven pennant-winning Yomiuri Giants teams and the Central League's 2012 MVP, reached Japan's iconic 2,000-hit milestone on Sunday. Now a first baseman, the 38-year-old Abe was the Giants' catcher from his rookie year in 2001 until 2014. He is ...
Kawasaki Frontale ended Kashima Antlers' nine-match unbeaten run and cut the gap on the J. League leaders with an emphatic 3-1 win on Sunday. Defending champion Kashima had won eight of nine games and drawn the other heading into the match at Todoroki Stadium, but ...
Rio Olympic bronze medalist Hirooki Arai finished second and fellow Japanese Kai Kobayashi third in the men's 50-km race walk at the world athletics championships Sunday. Arai finished in a season best of 3 hours, 41 minutes and 17 seconds, edging Kobayashi by two seconds ...
Wataru Karashima pitched into the seventh inning as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles got past the Orix Buffaloes 4-2 in the Pacific League on Sunday afternoon. Karashima (8-5) allowed two runs on four hits. Locating his fastball and throwing his changeup for effect, the lefty ...
Hall of Fame catcher Tsutomu Ito said Sunday he will step down as manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines at the end of the season. Ito, in his fifth year at the helm of the Pacific League club, has finished third in three of his ...
Leadoff home runs are fun. Most can probably agree on that. A leadoff home run is a rush, an unexpected jolt of energy at the outset of a game. There have been 26 in Japan this season, the last coming off the bat of the ...
