Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it has decided to sell its chip unit to a Japan-U.S.-South Korea consortium for around ¥2.4 trillion ($21 billion), rejecting a counterbid from its longtime partner Western Digital Corp. Toshiba made the decision at a board meeting to sell Toshiba Memory ...

The 100-day-old baby giant panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo can now take a few wobbly steps on its own, according to photographs and a video released by the zoo on Wednesday. The cub, born on June 12, will be able to walk steadily at about ...

Senior lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed on Wednesday that while the party may include constitutional revision as an official campaign pledge in the upcoming Lower House election, it will not specify details on how it plans to revise the war-renouncing Article ...

The Nuclear Regulation Authority has ordered the Japanese arm of Amazon.com Inc. and two other companies to suspend sales of products containing radioactive tritium in excess of the legally allowable limit, the country's nuclear watchdog said Wednesday. Amazon Japan K.K. and the two companies in ...

Experts warn that Trump’s threat could reinforce Pyongyang’s belief that nuclear weapons remain the sole means of securing the regime’s safety.

Some may question the decision to hold a costly election, but records show that the tenure of current members is actually longer than average.

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions — a medical joint venture set up by Sony and Olympus in 2013 — says it has developed a new surgical microscope that could free doctors from the strains involved with operating older, unwieldy models over long periods of time. The ...

Sakie Yokota, the mother of Megumi Yokota — who was abducted by North Korea as a teenager — on Wednesday hailed U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism of Pyongyang's abduction of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s in his address to the U.N. ...

A new party envisioned by a lawmaker close to popular Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike plans to field several dozen candidates in an upcoming general election expected for Oct. 22, the lawmaker said Wednesday. Independent lawmaker Masaru Wakasa said on a radio program that he will ...

The head of Tepco said Wednesday that the company will make a legal safety pledge — in response to a request by the nation's nuclear watchdog — as it seeks approval to restart reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture. Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of ...

Some companies are ramping up efforts to maintain and improve the health of their employees, such as sending them to remote health resorts where they can learn beneficial exercise techniques and other strategies to improve their daily lives. In late July, 16 employees of Sompo ...

With less than three years to go before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a surge of interest has been seen in people hoping to be trained to become Olympic volunteers, seen as vital to the smooth operation of the games. Olympic volunteers will be split into ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York on Tuesday that Japan continues to support a 2015 agreement on Iran's nuclear program, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump slammed the deal in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly. According to ...

In Shimukappu, a village in Hokkaido and home to a popular skiing resort, residents are to reopen the sole gas station, which closed four years ago as sales declined. It's a similar story elsewhere in the country, where oil demand has dropped by nearly a ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York on Tuesday that reform of the United Nations must include changes to the Security Council in order to be meaningful. According to a senior Japanese official, Abe said he supports and wants ...

U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to "totally destroy" North Korea unless it halts its pursuit of nuclear weapons, mocking the isolated country's dictator, Kim Jong Un, as a "rocket man" on a suicide mission. "The United ...

Even if mankind can avoid a nuclear apocalypse, the coming AI and robotic revolution may prove an equal existential challenge.

The Trump administration's apparent determination to break the Iran nuclear deal is causing global alarm, for good reason.

Considering constitutional issues and the risk of creating 'martyrs,' the current law strikes the right balance.

When houses are demolished, there is a very bad habit here of cutting down all the trees on the plot, leaving the ground cleared and empty for new construction.

When she first emerged on Tokyo's bedroom producer scene in 2011, Sapphire Slows shot to prominence almost instantly, scoring a release on voguish Los Angeles label Not Not Fun mere months after starting out. A full-length album, "Allegoria," followed on the same label in ...

Many are the Japanese movies about virginal guys who are hopeless with women. One template is "Train Man," a 2005 hit about a shy otaku (geek) who lucks into a date with his dream girl — and needs an online support network to survive ...

Japanese critics are calling "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store" the "most tear-inducing" story ever adapted from a Keigo Higashino novel. The best-selling author has penned such sensations as the thrillers "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "Journey Under the Midnight Sun," but ...

Mu Kanazaki struck twice as Kashima Antlers advanced to the quarterfinals of the Emperor's Cup with a 4-2 win over bitter J. League rivals Urawa Reds on Wednesday night. Kanazaki, whose brace in the second leg of the J. League championship final against Reds earned ...

Tomoyuki Sugano threw a two-hit shutout on Wednesday as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Hanshin Tigers 2-0 and moved within a hair of third place in the Central League. Sugano (16-5) faced just one batter over the minimum in a 110-pitch effort. He struck out ...

Japan's world champion Nozomi Okuhara responded to her fans' expectations on Wednesday by setting up a rematch of her world championships final against India's Pusarla Sindhu in the women's singles at the Japan Open. With her fans cheering her on at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, world ...

Garbine Muguruza cruised to victory in her first match as world No. 1, comfortably beating Rio Olympic champion Monica Puig in straight sets at the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Wednesday. Wimbledon champion Muguruza, who unseated Karolina Pliskova at the top of the WTA rankings ...

Ozeki Goeido capitalized on a slip-up by his closest rival to move two wins clear at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday. After Chiyotairyu crashed to a third defeat, Goeido (10-1) took full advantage in the day's penultimate bout, getting both hands on the ...

Junichi Fukura has accepted the Orix Buffaloes' request that he stay on as manager for 2018, the 57-year-old said Wednesday. It will be the third full season in charge for Fukura, who was promoted from head coach to the Pacific League club's interim manager during ...

Former world No. 4 Kimiko Date said Wednesday she has yet to give life after sport a serious thought, as she is still going back and forth between strange emptiness and ecstatic relief now that she has retired from competitive tennis. "There's a sentiment of ...

Japan celebrated two years to the start of the 2019 Rugby World Cup on Wednesday with the Webb Ellis Cup on display in Tokyo's Shibuya district ahead of a 46-day tour that will see it visit all 12 host cities from Sapporo in the ...

Seattle Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma, who has been on the disabled list with a shoulder inflammation since May, admitted Tuesday he will be sidelined for the remainder of the regular season. Speaking to reporters in Seattle, the 36-year-old said he has been forced to make ...