| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Aug | Oct » | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |
Japan Post Co. says it may use drones to move packages between post offices, possibly as early as next year, due to the worsening shortage of delivery workers. The envisioned project by the mail and package delivery unit of Japan Post Holdings Co. comes in ...
Japanese are the most pessimistic about the future of their country among people in four Asian democratic countries, a joint survey by think tanks showed Monday. The other three nations were India, Indonesia and Malaysia. Forty-eight percent of Japanese respondents said they are pessimistic, up from ...
Atomic bomb survivors and anti-nuclear campaigners on Monday held a sit-in at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park to protest North Korea's sixth nuclear test the previous day. About 90 protesters sat in front of the cenotaph for victims of the 1945 atomic bombing and raised a ...
South Korea’s military says it has uncovered signs rival North Korea is preparing for a fresh missile launch, possibly of a long-range ICBM.
Japan is apparently stumped over how to deal with North Korea, which has carried out its sixth nuclear weapons test in defiance of international warnings.
Toyota Motor Corp. is looking to revive its founding spirit amid an era of intense competition and drastic changes in the auto industry. Leaving its origins in the postwar era far behind, Toyota recently marked its 80th anniversary and has grown into one of ...
Hoping to dispel food safety fears, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will start holding regular tours of the new Central Wholesale Market in Toyosu later this month.
Asia's messaging apps have a history of becoming huge in their home market before struggling to gain traction overseas. South Korea's Kakao Corp. is counting on the Japanese love of manga to break that trend. Amassing 43 million users at home has driven Kakao's market ...
A 15-year-old high school student was arrested Monday on suspicion of fatally stabbing another teenage boy in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, who was thought to have been dating his former girlfriend. Police allege the suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, killed ...
No abnormal radiation readings have been detected from North Korea's nuclear test on Sunday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said. "Generally, radioactive substances are not supposed to be released into the air in case of an underground nuclear test," an NRA official noted, adding that monitoring ...
Taipei Zoo has said it has successfully bred yet another species of poison dart frog, with expertise from a Japanese zoo, and expects the first batch of hatched tadpoles to transform into froglets in the coming days. Tai Wei-yu, a section chief of the zoo's ...
The popularity of the blockbuster anime film "Your Name." went beyond movie screens, with fans flocking to the real-world locales depicted in the romantic fantasy. Gifu Prefecture has seen more tourists since its sites appeared in the movie. The city of Hida attracted more than ...
Jubei, a Japanese macaque, works hard to entertain the public together with his trainer, Yasutaka Kawabe, 44, from Kamamachi in Seto, Aichi Prefecture. The duo attracts audiences with well-coordinated moves. Jubei is 26 years old, equivalent to about 80 in human years, making him the ...
As the culture of lifetime employment crumbles, younger Japanese are increasingly pursuing parallel careers. Nanako Shibata is not only an employee at a Tokyo staffing agency PR but also a professional dancer who practices seven hours a day, four days a week to perform on ...
North Korea's latest nuclear test is likely to pile more pressure on China to take tough action against its neighbor, but Beijing already doubts economic sanctions will work and says it is not its sole responsibility to rein in Pyongyang. China has lambasted the West ...
The recipe for a record-breaking guacamole? 25,000 avocados and 1,000 people to mash them. That is what avocado growers in Mexico's Jalisco state mobilized on Sunday to break the world record for the biggest guacamole, a whopping 3 tons of delicious dip made from "green ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to hold her ground in a television debate ahead of German elections, under attack from her Social Democrat (SPD) rival on refugee policy, ties with Turkey and her handling of U.S. President Donald Trump. Merkel was some 14 points ahead of ...
U.S. refiner Phillips 66 has requested a Jones Act waiver to allow it to use foreign vessels to move crude or products to and from its 260,000-barrel-per-day Alliance refinery in Louisiana after Hurricane Harvey, the company said on Sunday. The Jones Act requires all goods ...
One of Cambodia's most stridently independent newspapers, The Cambodia Daily, published its last edition on Monday with the headline "Descent Into Outright Dictatorship" as it closed amid a crackdown on critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen. The English-language paper had been given a deadline of ...
Pressure must be increased on North Korea to help halt its weapons development programs, but diplomatic efforts directly involving Pyongyang should also be explored.
The challenge in North Korea is not just a nuclear crisis. It is a crisis of the quality of U.S. leadership.
China has much to gain by strongly responding to North Korea's nuclear provocations.
The early success of video games in Japan created market conditions that smothered e-sports.
The Japanese language certainly has no shortage of age-related terms, and the subject can pop up in almost any context.
How do you say, "Why don't you first take a shower and freshen up?" in Japanese
About 18,000 fireworks shot into the sky at Omagari fireworks in Daisen, Akita Prefecture.
Injury-plagued yokozuna Kisenosato resumed full-fledged practice bouts Monday, performing 13 matches with Yago, who was promoted to the second-highest juryo division for the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament starting Sunday. "I prepared myself physically before entering the dohyo ring," the 31-year-old yokozuna said after a training ...
Japan's top female skater, Satoko Miyahara, will withdraw from next month's Finlandia Trophy where she had been scheduled to open her season, the Japan Skating Federation said Monday. Miyahara, who sat out the latter half of last winter due to a stress fracture in her ...
The bow has become one of the most familiar sights in Japanese baseball. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks closer Dennis Sarfate records the final out of a game, brings his right hand up to meet his gloved left hand in front of his chest, and leans ...
With his Dell Technologies Championship title hopes long gone, Hideki Matsuyama is looking ahead in hopes his FedEx Playoffs chances do not go the same way. Sitting in equal 36th after a 1-under 70 in Sunday's third tour of TPC Boston, the Japanese has lost ...
Top-seeded Japan defeated Brazil 6-0 to become the first-ever recipient of the mixed team gold medal at the world judo championships Sunday, the final day of action. All 11 Japanese judoka who were entered for the event, featuring three men and three women, won their ...
Man of the moment Yosuke Ideguchi is refusing to get carried away by his heroics against Australia, but hopes to get another chance to shine by retaining his place in the starting lineup for Japan's final World Cup qualifier away to Saudi Arabia on ...
